i'm sure too thats how i mount all my floppies because i usualy code all
my perl programs in windows do i can do all that nifty copy and
pasting..then i bring the disk over to my comp and say
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
works great i might add
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Doc Shipley wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Matthew H. Ray wrote:
> > >
> > > You shouldn't have any trouble mounting the dos floppy.
> > >
> > > mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy
> > >
> >
> > Uh, are you sure?
>
> Yeah I'm sure, that's how I mount floppies on my Debian 2.2 box. '-t
> msdos' mounts it with old msdos short truncated names (ie.
> "micros~1.txt") while '-t vfat' tries to mount it as a fat32 drive and
> recognizes long filenames (ie. "microsoft sucks.txt") and is a superset
> of msdos if I'm not mistaken (mounts all sorts of fat partitions). '-t
> vfat' is also nice because it recognizes dotfiles properly while '-t
> msdos' hoses the names.
>
> > I never heard of a 512meg floppy.
>
> Where'd 512meg floppy come from?
>
> > Try
> > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
> >
> > Or, in most of the recent distros, just
> >
> > mount /floppy
> > or
> > mount /mnt/floppy
>
> Which works if you've got an entry for the floppy in your /etc/fstab.
>
> Matt
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