HOWTO mount a usbfloppy?

Markus Huber humarfedoralists at yahoo.de
Mon Aug 9 13:58:52 UTC 2004


Roger Grosswiler schrieb:

>hi,
>
>i have a hp omnibook xt 1000 - with no fixed floppy (btw. who still needs floppies today?). delivered with was a
>usb-floppy. How can i mount this? i didn't find an appropriate device...
>
>Roger
>
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Look in the hardware browser what device it is (could be sthg like 
/dev/sda1 and fat32 or fat16 filesystem) and do:

# mkdir /dev/usbfloppy
# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbfloppy

If your device is not recognized, then somebody else has to help, I just 
mount a digital camera via usb this way.

Markus





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