Originally posted by Bold Jim

As I understand it I have a floppy drive, so why can't I mount it,fedup and confused
Because you are not using the correct mountpoint?

For a dos/win formatted diskette that is inserted in the drive

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /media/floppy

For a ext2 (Linux) formatted diskette that is inserted in the drive.

mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy

umount /media/floppy (before removing the diskette)