On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, David Slater wrote:
> From a REAL beginner to Linux,
>
> How do I read my DOS zipped file on the A: drive ?
>
> (Because I want to activate my TANDBERG Tape drive, and I am hoping
> a downloaded firmware upgrade-driver might do the trick).
Depends on your distribution, and the tools you have installed.
Try the following
mdir a:
If this works {I.E. displays a directory entry}, then try this
mcopy a:<filename> .
This should copy the file from the floppy to your Linux directory.
If this works, then just type
unzip <filename>
If none of the above work, try this. You usually need to be logged in as
root to have this work.
mkdir /mnt/floppy
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
cd /mnt/floppy
ls
If this displays your directory, then type
cp <filename> /root
then unzip <filename>
If both of those methodsa don't work, you're in deep do-do, because your
kernel doesn't have MSDos support in it, and you have to recompile to add
it.
DaZZa
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