Aaron Konstam wrote:
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.
Thanks for the suggestion, I will try as you say.
My daughter came across a stack of disks she didn't want to toss out but
has no drive on her Mac to accommodate them. So I guess I am going to
have to save the files to a CD and I prefer to work on my Linux box.
The result of a garage cleaning effort yesterday afternoon in 95°F heat.
Bob Goodwin
