> Can I read data on a Windows95 generated floppy?
I don't know about Win95 specifically, but the following works for DOS
floppies:
# mkdir /mnt/floppy (one-shot...if it doesn't already exist)
# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0H1440 /mnt/floppy
# ls /mnt/floppy
The only gotcha is 8.3 filenames.
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I have a related problem. I have a system like this:
/dev/hda1 FAT32 (Win95) (1/3)
/dev/hda2 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 Linux native (2/3)
/dev/hda4 WinBook's save-to-disk area
When I try "mount -t msdos /dev/hda2 /mnt/xxx" or "mount -t vfat ...",
mount says it thinks the superblock is corrupted or I have too many
file systems mounted. I've read that FAT32 is something ugly that
Microsoft has done that is not yet fully supported by Linux. I
thought I compiled VFAT support into my kernel. Is anyone else
reading Win95 FAT32 filesystems correctly? I didn't have this problem
with the old (1995) Win95, only with the latest version.
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Not really a Linux issue, but another oddity is that Win95 sees the
whole disk when it reports disk space, as though it weren't paying
attention to the partition boundaries. WinBook folks told me not to
worry, that Win95 won't overwrite its boundary and spill over onto the
next partition. Win95 FDISK reports the partition info correctly, so
I wonder why the Win95 OS doesn't know what's going on. I just want
to be sure Win95 won't scribble on Linux the way it feels free to
scribble on the master boot record as though other OSs didn't exist.
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Geoffrey S. Knauth http://world.std.com/~gsk
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