I formatted floppy with fdformat /dev/fd0
then tried mount /dev/fd0 and I get "you must specify a filesystem type".
I have checked the man pages, and help, and Oreily reference manual.

Where do I specify the filesystem type?

Ive never had this problem before and I have used floppies on this system, and yes, I have tried other floppies and I get the same thing. Thanks for any help.

All your floppies won't read or only the ones you have run fdformat on?
The man page for fdformat says "fdformat - Low-level formats a floppy disk".
My understanding that you are still required to put a filesystem on the disk.
Such as mkdosfs or mkfs.minix or mke2fs.

Try using 'superformat'
$ man superformat

$ superformat /dev/fd0 hd
That does the trick for me, it even puts the vfat filesystem on.

As for the mounting, make sure something like
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat noauto,owner,user 0 0

is in your /etc/fstab (I only use 'msdos' disks, so the type is vfat. If you will use 'linux' floppies put 'auto' or 'ext2' in place of 'vfat'

Do you need to specify a mount point?

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

If you have the proper entry in fstab, you can just type in mount /dev/fd0 or mount /mnt/floppy. Either way works on mine. If you have no entry in fstab then you have to put the whole thing in like this. mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy. That works wiether it is a hard drive or whatever. If you type in /mnt/floppy it looks for the rest in fstab. If it is not there, it will spit out a error message. Sometimes you can leave out the -t vfat but sometimes it won't even try.

Hope that helps

Later

I already have the proper entry in my fstab. I am trying to put a linux Filesystem on a floppy using the console?

I tried mkfsext2
and
mkfsreiserfs
neither work, but I am not sure when I do that or where ? before I do fdformat or after?

Something must have happend to my system cuz I have always clicked on the kde floppy Icon and it worked but using the format option in kde has never worked, ive always had to login as root to format a floppy.

If you want something that works with windoze, try mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0. That should work with windoze. I'm not a big windoze fan or user for that matters so not 100% sure.

If it says command not found, type locate vfat. You should find a file in sbin that is the correct format command. It should be the same but you never know.

Hope that helps.

Again, just my understanding...
The fdformat is not strictly needed in all cases. It would be used to "clean format" a floppy.
One of the format commands would be done after the fdformat, or completely by itself. I usually prefer the mkdosfs except in special cases. The -m command can add fun messages when the system is accidently booted with the floppy in.

Are you only having these problems with the floppy drive or are you seeing it elsewhere? CD? Other partitions?
This free floppy toolset can check your floppy drive (among other things) if you think that might be needed.

Just floppy