How to mount floppy?

[Mike McCarty]

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
> 
>>Can someone tell me why I can't mount a Windows floppy containing a
>>WordPerfect .wpd file on this FC6 computer?
>>
>>mount  /dev/fd0
>>mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
>>mount: you must specify the filesystem type
>>
>>so I tried mount -t vfat /dev/fd0
>>
>>but that doesn't work!
> 
> 
> Of course not.  Most floppies are FAT-12 filesystems.  Try just "-t
> msdos" instead of vfat.

ALL MSDOS formatted floppies are FAT-12. ALL. The "vfat" refers to how
the directories get added entries for the LFNs, not how the FATS are
formatted. I prefer not to use vfat for my MSDOS formatted floppies,
because mostly I use them for sneakernet connections to my MSDOS
machines, which don't understand LFNs.

Mike
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