[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, > > I've been trying to access files from a sco-unix formatted floppy disk, >in linux, and so far am unable to do so. >I know that the floppy is good, ie has no errors, but linux tells me >it cannot recognise the format type, and I don't have access to the machine >that created the disk. > Does anyone know if I can access this data through linux, or is >there something else i can do?? > try:-
$ su Password: # modprobe sysv # mount -t sysv /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy # exit $ ls -l /mnt/floppy looking good? No guarantees, it might work, and is worth a try. If you get rude remarks at the "modprobe sysv" stage you will have to compile the sysv kernel module. -- C. S.
