To see what is on the drive, you can use the command "mdir" if you have it
on your system (and the disk is -t msdos). If not, you need to mount it -
actually to access it, you need to mount it anyway.
Mount it with a command like
mount /dev/fd0 /someplace
replacing "someplace" with an empty directory created to be a mount point
for the floppy 00 /mnt and /mnt/floppy are the two mount points commonly used.
If your floppy was made on a Win9x system and you have a new enough kernel
(I think 2.0.34 is the earliest for this), you can mount with the -t vfat
option to be able to use long Windows-style filenames; otherwise, you'll
mount as -t msdos and be limited to 8.3 filenames.
Once the disk is mounted, you can look at it with ls and copy from it with
cp, just like any other filesystem.
At 09:32 PM 4/18/99 -0400, Robert Pope wrote [abridged]:
> I know the floppy drive is /dev/fd0. So how do I see what's on
>the floppy and (more important) how do I copy something from the floppy to
>the hard drive?
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