According to Robert Pope: While burning my CPU.
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> Okay, here's a stupid question for you...
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> 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?
You can mount it with what ever filesystem type it has, for example
mount -tmsdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0 (/dev/fd0) must be a "valid directory".
Or use "mtools"
'mdir' will show the directory listing of the floppy without mounting the
drive at all.
'man mtools' for more details.
If you do not have "mtools" on your system, they are obtainable at;
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/mtools-3.8.tar.gz
ftp://linux.wauug.org/pub/knaff/mtools/mtools-3.8.tar.gz
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/disk-management/mtools-3.8.tar.gz
Possably the version number could be higher than stated above, or even worse
the URL's could have changed, sunsite is now "metalab" i belive.
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> This should be easy, and it probably is. I'm probably just typing
> something wrong (hey, it's happened!)
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> Thanks.
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> Bob
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