Are you certain you're not trying to mount a floppy with a raw kernel image?
Perhaps you can try formatting a floppy as ext2 (I believe the format
command will low-level format the disk and create the filesystem) and then
mount it. What distro are you running, and what kernal version?
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> The subjectline says it, dos formatted floppies work fine, but give me a
>linux floppy, such as a bootdisk and i get the message wrong fs type,
>etc. etc.
> I'm using mount -t
> then for type, ext2, minix, I've tried msdos, fat, and vfat,
> then /dev/fd0 /floppy
> and it still gives me that error.
> Any suggestions?
>Thanks.
>Dave.
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