Comment 8 for bug 12393

(In reply to comment #7)
> "auto" will only work if the vfat module is loaded.

That indeed is the reason for the failure.

> Perhaps it is possible for g-v-m/pmount to explicitly specify the filesystem
> type (since hal already probes for it, if I'm not mistaken)

This is already done. If hal supplies a file system, it is used; if not, then
pmount tries "vfat, ext2, ..." in succession until the mount succeeds. This
automatically loads the modules as well. However, in this case pmount falls back
to mount since the floppy is in /etc/fstab.

I think the sanest solution would be to change the default fstab entry from
"auto" to "vfat,minix" (these are the only file systems I ever saw on floppies).

Gustavo, that's what you should do on your computer, too. Just replace "auto"
with "vfat".