I dont see how prossessor makes a difference here but it always seems to be needed!
I am trying to get to floppy in /media/floppy0 (also tryied the shoutcut) when the folder opened the floppy's light didn't come on and nothing came up (edited the floppy in windows less than five minutes agao)
I know (know) that FAT (all flavors but exFAT [for legal reasons Microsoft pateteted and copyrighted exFAT pretty heavily]) are supported by almost all Linux distros (All Ubuntu flavors included).
I dont know how to manually mout.
Help please!?!
Dought any of this makes a difference:
256 megs of ram
Uninstalled penguin games pack (not full remove just normal remove)

Floppy drives are a little trickier than other types of drives. That said, the approach is similar to any other drive.

You need a mount point. That is just an empty directory in your file system where you want the files to show up. If /media/floppy0 exists in your file system, and is empty, that is fine.

I have an entry in /etc/fstab. I'm not sure if that is mandatory or not. Anyway, if you have it, it won't hurt. Here is mine.

You can change this to suit your needs. Look in /dev to see if the floppy is called 'fd0. That has to match. /mnt/floppy is where I mount floppies.

The auto option is supposed to try best guess on the file system. I have to mount floppies as root. So on a buntu, use 'sudo' on the commands.

The biggest problem I have with this is guessing the file system type. Not bad if you formatted the floppies on a windies system, they will be msdos.

To mount a fat floppy as root, then, the command 'mount /dev/fd0 -t msdos' ( no quotes ) should work. File systems become a problem when you don't remember the FS type. The list supported is long, and I have to guess... Good thing I don't use floppies much.

Hope this helps.

I plain formatted it (like I said 5mins prior) and am 99.9% sure it is ether FAT12 or FAT16 (it tells me if it is FAT32).
I also think your plan will work try it when I get home.