greeetings everybody!
i recently switched to a debian distro;earlier i had no problems mounting a floppy,but now whenever i try to mount, an error message:
"mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified"
comes up.whatever could be the problem and what's the soln?

my fstab table reads like this:

<file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sdd1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sdb2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sdc2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sdd2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ext3 rw,noauto 0 0
/dev/md0 /home ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/md1 /faculty_home ext3 rw 0 0

Is the floppy formatted, and is there a filesystem on it? If not, go
$ fdformat /dev/fd0
$ /sbin/mkfs.{msdos,ext2,minix,...} /dev/fd0
or use a frontend like kfloppy.
You can use the mtools for a FAT-formatted floppy:
$ mdir a:
should give you the directory contents,
$ mcopy source a:target
puts a file onto the disk; just like in M$-DOS.

Hope I could help,
mschutte

Try this:

mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0

KC