How to mount a dos floppy ?

[Bob Goodwin]

Bob Goodwin wrote:
>
> How do I mount an old dos floppy without making additions to fstab?
> I assume there is a proper way to do this since an icon comes up on 
> the desktop when I plug the disk in to the drive but it can't deal 
> with the file system apparently and refuses to mount.  I don't know 
> the magic incantation for the command line.
>
> I have a few disks I need to extract text [.doc] files from.
>
> Bob Goodwin
>
mount /dev/fd0 -t vfat /media   Works but it dumps all the files in /media.

So I created /media/floppy/  That works, is it the "usual/correct" way?

Bob Goodwin