Re: [newbie] mounting a floppy??

[Thomas J. Hamman]

On 25-Jul-99 Andy Goth wrote:
>> > > It's a DOS floppy, so:
>> > >
>> > > mount -t fat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>> > >
>> > > That should do it.
>> >
>> > I thought that was -t msdos.
>> 
>> it could be msdos, or fat, or vfat.
>> 
>> vfat would be best, as it supports long file names.
>> 
>> none of it matters, though, if you still have problems with the command.
> 
> If I have a FAT16 disk that Windows has "touched up" to have long
> filenames, how can I access them through Linux?  Is that what vfat is
> for?

vfat should work for that, yes.


-Tom