On Tue, 03 Aug 1999, Rik Osborne wrote:
>(Just
> out of curiosity, why does the floppy-formatting utility in KDE allow
> me to format DOS disks when Linux apparently won't read them afterward?
> My Mac _can_ read/write DOS disks, so I thought that might be a way to
> transfer files between machines. But when I try to mount a DOS disk
> using "mount /mnt/floppy" it tells me something about an unknown
> filesystem.
>
To mount a "dos" floppy in Linux type the following command
from the console:
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /<mountpoint>
That SHOULD allow you to mount a Win9x/Dos floppy. Also
make sure you're not in the directory where you want to
mount the floppy. Further, unless otherwise specified (in
/etc/fstab) only "root" can mount a floppy, but you
probably shouldn't run around doing non-admin stuff as
"root." It's kinda dangerous. :-)
John
