That only works on normal floppies. If I have a boot floppy in there that
was created a special way most systems will not mount them directly. But
they will still boot from them.
Brian Schramm
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On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote:
> Why don't you try to mount the floppy or the cd, if it succeeds, there's a
> disk / cdrom, if it fails, there not...
>
> Ron Rademaker
>
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Brian Schramm wrote:
>
> > Is there a program that I can run in Linux that will tell me if there is a
> > disk in a floppy or a cd in a cdrom drive on a machine? I control
> > machines remotly and it would be nice to know if someone stuck a disk in a
> > drive that has the potencial of booting off it so I know if a reboot will
> > do what I want.
> >
> > Brian
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