It's more difficult to help if you don't post the error messages, but try
mount_msdos /dev/fd0a /floppy
if you're _sure_ it's a MS-DOS formatted disk. fdformat doesn't actually
do anything more than a basic sector format - there's no MS-DOS filesystem
when it's done.

	- Joel Reicher

> I have been trying to mount msdos floppies as follows:
> 
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0d /floppy
> 
> mount /dev/fd0d /floppy
> 
> mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
> 
> etc.
> 
> All I get are error messages.
> 
> What is the trick?
> 
> I am running NetBSD-1.3.3 on a PCI bus i386 Pentium machine.
> Floppies are formated under Windows 95.  I also tried formatting a floppy wit
> h fdformat:
> 
> fdformat /dev/fd0
> 
> No luck in mounting.
> 
> 
> jim nelson
> jnelson@wiai.com