On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Pete Poff wrote: > Dear Sir or Madom, > I have servel question to ask. > > 1. How do I access my floppy drive? All I know is that it is fd0.
the mount command can be used to mount a floppy - but remember to unmount it again before removing it from the drive!! e.g. mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy will mount the floppy in fd0 on directory /floppy (if /floppy exists). note: unless you set up permissions to allow normal users to do this, this is a privelidged (root only) command. see 'man mount' for more info. > 2. How do I copy files off of a MS-DOS floppy? you can use mtools to copy files to/from a dos floppy. e.g. mdir a: # get a directory listing of a: mcopy a:file.txt . # copy file.txt from a: to current dir mcopy file.txt a: # copy file.txt from current dir to a: see 'man mtools', 'man mdir', 'man mcopy' etc for more info. > 3. How do I use my modem to connect to a local unix server? minicom is a good terminal emulator for linux. it is fairly similar in style to telix. it's probably the easiest terminal program to use. there are other programs too: cu -- comes with uucp package. useful sometimes but more suited to scripting than interactive use. seyon -- X windows based terminal emulator. ckermit -- good comms program, but can be difficult to use until you get used to it. craig