Re: [newbie] mounting a floppy??

[William Meyer]

> I downloaded some utilities on my win98 machine, and want to transfer them
> over to my linux machine, but when I put the disk in the drive and click
on
> the icon, it says:
>
> could not mount
> error log:
>
> mount you must specify the filesystem type

It's a DOS floppy, so:

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

That should do it.