[NTLUG:Discuss] floppy questions

[Fred James]

Jay Urish wrote:
> Should be fat16
>
> On 12/9/2010 11:24 AM, Fred James wrote:
>> I have some 3.5 floppy disk that were made on a Win98SE system, that 
>> I should like to mount and read on a Linux box.  But so far I have 
>> not been able to get the filesystem type correct ... any clues would 
>> be appreciated.  Thanks
>> Regards
>> Fred James
Attempting to specify 'fat', 'fat16', or 'fat32' results in the message: 
"mount: maybe you meant 'vfat'?"
Specifying 'vfat' results in the message "mount: /dev/fd0: can't read 
superblock"
Does that mean it is hopeless?  Is there some other way to get the data 
off these disk?
Regards
Fred James