Secondly I am now getting an error message that reads:
'Mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified'
What's the file system on the disk ?
If it's windowsishly formatted, does :
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy(orwherever)
as root work ?
you specified a filesystem of 'auto' in fstab.
When this is encountered by mount, it will only be able to mount the
volume when it's a filesystem which is 'understood' by the kernel at
that time. By specifying the -t vfat, linux knows that it must load the
appropriate driver for this fs.
Before you load this module, your filesystems 'file' will probably look
like :