From: H. Peter Anvin N9ITP (hpa@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu)
Date: 05/14/93 

From: hpa@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP)
Subject: Re: How to mount floppy??
Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 16:52:22 GMT

In article <C70A9t.zu@rivm.nl> of comp.os.linux,
  mtveg@rivm.nl (Erik Geertsema) writes:

> Assuming your floppy is a 1.44MB one in drive 0, and you want to mount it
> on /mnt, type :
>
> mount /dev/fd0H1440 /mnt
>
> or, if it is a MS-Dos floppy, type :
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0H1440 /mnt
>
> Thats all there is to it.
>
> Erik.
>

Actually

        mount -t <whatever-type> /dev/fd0 /mnt

will also work fine. The capacity specifications (as in
/dev/fd0H1440) are only needed when formatting.

        /hpa 

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