mount questions (newbie question)
 

Hello all I'm trying to mount my floppy drive, (mount /mnt/floppy) which I have no problems but when I look for the files on the floppy nothing comes up. The other thing is that the files I'm looking for were created on a M$ system. So I tried to use the mstools (mcopy etc) but nothing comes up. If it helps the file I'm trying to get off the floppy is a text file, so I can't figure out why I can't find it on the floppy. Thank You

Which distro are you running? Cause most distros have dos file system enabled by default in the kernel. Are you sure you're checking the right directory?

I'm running slackware 10.1. I mounted the floppy drive by using mount /mnt/floppy then I ran the command ls -a which basically gives me nothing back, except ./ and ../. I think I'm doing everything right to find the file. Thank You

Is /mnt/floppy the mount point for floppies in /etc/fstab?
Do you have fat filesystems enabled in your kernel? It's under devicedrivers-filesystems-DOS/FAT/NT. Go into /usr/src/linux and type "make menuconfig" to see your kernel configuration.

Ok I checked out the kernel and DOS is supported.

Ok I got the file I needed off the disk. It is a txt file but when I open it has this ^M all next to the text. Plus I copied the file to my home directory is has it shown in green lettars. Is this normal? Thank YOu

Yes, it is. The ^M is because windows and linux stores new lines of text differently. The green says that the file has executable permissions. This is because VFAT does not store file permisions and linux assumes you want full permisions.