If your kernel has support for msdos FAT, you can put the file on an
msdos-formatted floppy, and then mount the floppy on the linux box to copy
it. To mount an msdos-formatted floppy on your linux machine, do the
following as root:
cd /
mkdir /floppy
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
Then, you can 'cp /floppy/filename /tmp'. To answer your next question
about how you know if your kernel has msdos FAT support, if it doesn't, the
mount command above will fail with an error message indicating so.
At 08:03 AM 10/30/98 -0600, you wrote:
>i found the proper file and i have downloaded it. but i am not downloading
from the machine that i have linux installed on. i am downloading from a
window95 machine. can you tell me how to format a floppy for linux? and
can you tell me how to copy the file from the floppy to /tmp?
>
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