Re: [aclug-L] Floppy

[Thomas Wallis <wallis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Wayne White wrote:

> I attempted to copy a file to a floppy this evening.
> The drive would not mount with a disk formatted in DOS.
> I could mount it with my start-up disk in it. I did 
> not want to copy the file to my start-up disk. Is there
> a Linux equivelant to formatting a disk so that fd0
> will mount with it in it? I even attempted to mount
> it with a blank, unformatted, disk and was unable to
> do so. I realize this is totally newbie territory,
> but I just can't figure it out with the resources at
> my disposal. 

        The easiest way to deal with MSDOS formatted floppies is to use
the mtools package, which allows a user to format floppies, copy LINUX
files back and forth to DOS formatted floppies, etc.    To mount a floppy
with a DOS filesystem on it, you might try something like:

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt

(I think this is right, although I haven't done this in a while).  

                                Tom Wallis

 > 
> Thanks,
> 
> Wayne
> 
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