trying to mount floppy
 

I am using RH 7.3 I inserted a floopy to the drive and issued the following command:
mount /mnt/foppy
and I recive:
mount:cant find /mnt/floppy in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
whats wrong?
thanks.

Um, you don't have an entry in /etc/fstab for your floppy drive I'd guess?

To issue a command like that, you'll need to have already had all the rest of the mounting information provided.

If you don't mount floppies very often, then I'd say to just issue the full command, and not worry about editing your /etc/fstab file for something like this. Anyway, try this:
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

OR if that doesn't work:
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

The difference being maybe linux cannot guess the filesystem on the floppy, the above command assumes it's a windows formatted floppy, so vfat. If you've formatted it using ext3 or whatever, replace the vfat portion with the filesystem on the disk.

*Note, only root can mount things normally.

Cool

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

know its working but I have another problem. I wrote a txt file on the floppy and I need to see this file on a winxp computer-whan put the floppy in the computer he couldnt see the file the computer wrote that I need to format the diskette.