How to mount a dos floppy ?

[Aldo Foot]

On 9/20/07, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> Bob Goodwin wrote:
> > 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.
>
> It is preferable to use
>
> mount /dev/fd0 -t msdos /path/to/empty/directory/for/mount/point
>
> Note that vfat and msdos are NOT the same. For use with old
> MSDOS formatted discs, msdos is preferable.
>
> Mike
> --
>
>

Gents,
is the /etc/floppy file needed for /dev/fd0 to work?
The file /etc/floppy does not exist in a newly installed system, so I read
somewhere that in order to use the floppy you have to create the file with
the command
        # floppy --createrc >/etc/floppy

But even after executing the command in FC7 I could not format the floppy
using /dev/fd0, I had to use
       # fdformat /dev/fd0u1440.

Please note that the file /dev/fd0 did exist. Any comments appreciated.
~Aldo.
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