On 9/20/07, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bob Goodwin wrote:
> 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 Goodwin
>>
> mount /dev/fd0 -t vfat /media Works but it dumps all the files in /media.
It is preferable to use
mount /dev/fd0 -t msdos /path/to/empty/directory/for/mount/point
Note that vfat and msdos are NOT the same. For use with old
MSDOS formatted discs, msdos is preferable.
Mike
--
Gents,
is the /etc/floppy file needed for /dev/fd0 to work?
The file /etc/floppy does not exist in a newly installed system, so I read
somewhere that in order to use the floppy you have to create the file with the command
# floppy --createrc >/etc/floppy
But even after executing the command in FC7 I could not format the floppy
using /dev/fd0, I had to use
# fdformat /dev/fd0u1440.
Please note that the file /dev/fd0 did exist. Any comments appreciated.
~Aldo.
