> The floppy disk I am trying to mount has a tar file that was downloaded on a
> windows machine
since windows only recognizes DOS formatted (FAT12) floppies, treat your
floppy as a DOS formatted one for Linux. (you can use the 'm'tools (mdir,
mcopy will be useful)
> -- the system downloaded it as a winzip file. when I try to
> mount this floppy now, I get this error msg
It's not downloaded as a winzip file, the file is still a .tgz (gzipped
tar file). The file manager app recognizes the extension as something
winzip can deal with (winzip handles .tgz files almost transparently), so
it displays what winzip told it to display to describe that file type.
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too
> many mounted filesystems
You may not have fat support in your kernel.
try mount -t fat -r /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
if that doesn't work probably these won't either, but you can try:
vfat or msdos in place of fat, above.
> Also, if the file has the .tgz extension, won't the linux system
> understand that? Do I have to format the disk in linux, and then do the
> copy?
yes, and no.
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