Mounting Floppy diskette problem on Redhat 8.0

[Joe Pitts]

Hello, KCLUG,

I have a newbie Linux question about how to mount a floppy diskette that is formatted on Windows XP.

I tried to mount this diskette on the Redhat 8.0 desktop again and again.
but it keep saying that

"
#[root at red root]#mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
/dev/fd0: Input/Output error
mount : you must specify the filesystem type
"

I don't know why it doesn't allow to mount this floppy diskette.
I can access to this diskette on the Windows system,
but not in Linux box.

What about my Linux box?
Well, it is an Emachine Pentium 4 with 256MB RAM
there is no other scsi disk or anything except CD-Writer come with.

I don't have any problem accessing CDROM.

when I check the file system mounting point /etc/fstab
I have like this:

[root at red root]# cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
LABEL=/usr              /usr                    ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=/var              /var                    ext3    defaults        1 2
/dev/hda7               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1             /mnt/cdrom1             iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
[root at red root]#

I haven't modified any parameter on this file yet after I installed.

Any recommendation?

Thanks in advance.

Joseph Pitts
pittspringdale at yahoo.com

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