On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 07:47:24PM -0700, chaitanya lakshminarayan wrote:
| I am new to the linux world, so bear with me.
|
| How do I read the floppy drive (a:) in linux. How is it mounted?
|
| Can linux read fat partitions(dos)? Is there something I have to do to
| make this happen?
Two options :
1) use mtools. They're installed by default.
mdir a:
mcopy a:\*.\* .
etc.
2) mount the floppy. Yes, Linux can do FAT.
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
cd /mnt
cp * /tmp
cd /
umount /mnt
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