On This Day, in the Year of Our Lord 9 Mar 99, at 12:58, thus spoke Mandy Williams :

>     I assumed i knew what was going on when i was mounting my
>     floppy....well i guess i don't.  OK......I cannot mount ANY
>     floppy except my linux boot disk!!  When i try any other disk,
>     it says: 

>     What is this??  The disks are Windows formatted but should
>     that matter??  I am thinking I used to be able to do it! 

I am utterly ignorant about Linux myself, but try this to mount non-
Linux formatted disks:

insmod vfat
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt

I'm sure there are better, easier ways.
I can read Win95 disks though.

Leandro
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