<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike McCarty</b> <<a href="mailto:Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net">Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Bob Goodwin wrote:<br>> Bob Goodwin wrote:<br>><br>>><br>>> How do I mount an old dos floppy without making additions to fstab?<br>>> I assume there is a proper way to do this since an icon comes up on
<br>>> the desktop when I plug the disk in to the drive but it can't deal<br>>> with the file system apparently and refuses to mount. I don't know<br>>> the magic incantation for the command line.
<br>>><br>>> I have a few disks I need to extract text [.doc] files from.<br>>><br>>> Bob Goodwin<br>>><br>> mount /dev/fd0 -t vfat /media Works but it dumps all the files in /media.<br>
<br>It is preferable to use<br><br>mount /dev/fd0 -t msdos /path/to/empty/directory/for/mount/point<br><br>Note that vfat and msdos are NOT the same. For use with old<br>MSDOS formatted discs, msdos is preferable.<br><br>
Mike<br>--<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br>Gents,<br>
is the /etc/floppy file needed for /dev/fd0 to work?<br>
The file /etc/floppy does not exist in a newly installed system, so I read<br>
somewhere that in order to use the floppy you have to create the file with the command<br>
# floppy --createrc >/etc/floppy<br>
<br>But even after executing the command in FC7 I could not format the floppy <br>using /dev/fd0, I had to use <br> # fdformat /dev/fd0u1440.<br><br>Please note that the file /dev/fd0 did exist. Any comments appreciated.
<br>~Aldo.<br>