Seeing how you are new, I will asume that you have not recompiled your
kernel to support the 'long' filenmaes from win95....
So, make sure the file's name is shorter than 8 characters, so you can tell
what file is what.....then do the following....
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
| | | | |
\ \ \ \ \
\ \ \ \ \- directory to mount to
\ \ \ \- your floppy drive (a:)
\ \ \- msdos filetype
\ \- type
\- mount command
cd /mnt/floppy
there your floppy files will be
when finished do this
umount /dev/fd0
NOW, what that does is mount your floppy dirve into /mnt/floppy
You "MUST" umount /dev/fd0 after you are finished as you can do damage to
either your floppy disk or floppy drive if not done.
Dan
At 04:19 PM 1/17/98 -0500, Steven Hanley wrote:
>If I download files from Windows and put them on a floppy. How can I use
them in Linux? Appologies for this newbie question but I need to access a
file on floppy.
>
>Thank You
>
>Steve
>
>
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