Floppy Drive Packages

steveman92389 · 11-12-2002, 05:17 PM

I know that the floppy drive is located at /dev/fd0, but how do I gunzip .tgz packages that are on the floppy?

Thymox · 11-12-2002, 05:22 PM

First you would have to be able to access the files stored on it... you'd need to MOUNT the floppy drive...

steveman92389 · 11-12-2002, 06:48 PM

Thymox · 11-12-2002, 06:54 PM

If you're running something other than Mandrake, then you can open a terminal (the thing that looks like the ol' Windows DOS box) and type mount /mnt/floppy, and then you should be able to access the files from there (/mnt/floppy).

If you're running Mandrake 8.0+, then it is likely that it has already mounted the floppy when you put it in the drive... in which case, you can simply look in /mnt/floppy to see if there are any files there.

HTH

steveman92389 · 11-12-2002, 07:30 PM

Thanx.