RE: trouble mounting native linux floppies.

[Dr. Robert J. Meier]

Dave and Robert,

>   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.

        After I upgraded to Slackware 3.6 (linux-2.2.5), I found that
fdformat(8) no longer creates the file system.  I do not know
whether the change was due to kernel, package, or distribution
changes.  I now use mke2fs(8) explicitly.

linux> fdformat /dev/fd0H1440
linux> mke2fs /dev/fd0
linux> mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy

Bob