Is it just me, or is floppy disk usage under Linux an unadulterated pain in the ass? I'm really not a newbie, but I can't get it done. I've formatted it with Gnome Floppy, with a Linux Native (ext2) file system. It formats successfully, and then I try to mount it as follows: mount /mnt/floppy and I get this message:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems. I've run mke2fs on it, to make sure that the disk has the correct file system. That seems to work. I've checked my fstab file, and the floppy entry looks like this: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 I don't know alot about this, but from what I've read, this seems like a perfectly valid fstab entry for my floppy drive. The drive works properly under Windows, and in fact, it seems that I have this problem with numerous different Linux computers. I must be doing something wrong, and I won't be surprised if it's simple and obvious, but I can't figure it out. Please help. Doug Gough
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