Copying files to Floppy

seirra7 · 02-24-2002, 02:44 PM

Greetings! I have Mandrake 8.1 installed and learning. For the life of me I cannot get the comand right for copying a file to the floppy drive.

cp file /mnt/floppy

???

Thanks for any help

seirra

trickykid · 02-24-2002, 02:48 PM

and i assume you have the floppy mounted before trying to copy to it ??

crabboy · 02-24-2002, 10:30 PM

Code:

mount /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy
cp file /mnt/floppy

If you floppy is formatted for FAT then your kernel will need to support it. Most likely it will, and mount will detect the floppy filesystem.
If this is only for Linux you could create a ext2 file systems on a floppy.

frieza · 02-25-2002, 12:34 AM

if /dev/floppy for some unforseen reason doesn't work, try /dev/fdX where x is the number of the floppy (usually 0, or 1)