floppy problem with Linux on TP

[cph@martigny.ai.mit.edu (Chris Hanson)]

   Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 23:09:32 -0400
   From: moy <moy@math.rutgers.edu>

   However, I have noticed that Linux (1.2.9 and even 1.2.1) have the 
   following problem(s)
     (1) Linux does not properly mount a msdos floppy with the command
	   mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
	 In fact I cannot mount any type of floppy file system with Linux
     (2) nor do the mtools commands such as mdir or mcopy work

In the file "/etc/lilo.conf" you must have a line like the following:

    append="floppy=thinkpad"

If you don't have an append= line, add one like the above.  If you
have

    append=""

replace it with the one above.  If you have append=, and it contains
something in the quotes, add floppy=thinkpad inside the quotes,
separated from the other text by a space.