Can't mount floppies

[Hitokiri_X]

Having problems mounting newly formatted floppies,and names are getting cut off at about 8 letters.This was after a newly compiled kernel.
This is what I have in my fstab:
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0

I used fdformat /dev/fd0 to format a floppy and got this error with mount:

mount: you must specify the filesystem type.

I have tried mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy and
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy and none of them work.

[mdwatts]

Have you tried just

mount /floppy ?

[Hitokiri_X]

Originally posted by Hitokiri_X:
<STRONG>

mount: you must specify the filesystem type.

</STRONG>

Yes,thats the error I get.

[jaygee432]

Try changing the filesystem in your fstab from auto to vfat or msdos.

[ 19 March 2002: Message edited by: jaygee432 ]

[slapNUT]

fdformat gives you a blank disk. You can not mount a blank disk.

mke2fs /dev/fd0

mount -t ext2 /dev/fdo /floppy