Simple. =) Make yourself a directory where you are going to mount the disk
(i.e. "mkdir /mnt/fd0). The usual place is /mnt/fd0, I think. Is this a
DOS/Windows disk, ora Linux disk? If it's the former, then you just pop it
into the drive and type "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0". That should
take care of it. Then you can just do a "ls /mnt/fd0" to view the
directory. Don't forget to do a "sync ; umount /dev/fd0" before ejecting
the disk, though--and make sure you're not currently in the /mnt/fd0
directory at the time, or it will say "filesystem busy" when you attempt
to unmount the disk.
Matt
On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Robert Pope wrote:
>
> Okay, here's a stupid question for you...
>
> 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?
>
> This should be easy, and it probably is. I'm probably just typing
> something wrong (hey, it's happened!)
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bob
>
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