On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 11:19 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > How do I mount an old dos floppy without making additions to fstab? > > I assume there is a proper way to do this since an icon comes up on the > desktop when I plug the disk in to the drive but it can't deal with the > file system apparently and refuses to mount. I don't know the magic > incantation for the command line. > > I have a few disks I need to extract text [.doc] files from. > > Bob Goodwinis The easiest way to do that is with the mtools commands(mdir, mcopy,etc.) mdir a:/ will give you the directory of the floppy mcopy a:/foo ./ will copy the file foo to the current directory. Although mounting the floppy with file type msdos should also work. -- ======================================================================= You single-handedly fought your way into this hopeless mess. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
