Difficulty mounting floppy

"Michael J. Schweppe" wrote:
>
> Hello All:
>
> Over the weekend I reinstalled RH 6.1 on the Linux only box. Before I
> go on line with it though I wanted to install Bastille Linux. I
> downloaded a copy of it from the Windows box and then tried to mnt the
> floppy with,
>

>         mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

>
> but I get this back,
>

>         mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock...

>
> I know the drive works and I have tried two different floppies. I
> also tried formatting the floppy with Win and Linux and still get the
> same error.
>
> What am I doing wrong here?

Try:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0h1440 /mnt
or:
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0h1440 /mnt

Its a windows disk.

...if you've made lots of little mountpoints inside /mnt, mount it
there instead.

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