files disappear

Hello Mike,

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Michael Havens wrote:

> sudo mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy Then it tells me that I have the
> wrong filetype or something like that! I can't think of anything to do so I

Make sure the floppy is formatted first. If you want an MS-DOS style disk,
then try:


fdformat /dev/fd0
mkdosfs /dev/fd0 # or "mformat a:" or "mkfs.msdos /dev/fd0" or "mkfs.fat ..."

Jeremy C. Reed
http://www.reedmedia.net/