reading a floppy
 

Hi,
Therre is a MS DOS floppy disk containing files which need to be copied to hard disk in a Linux computer. how can one make the Linux machine read the floppy?
Thank you.

Insert the disk in the drive, and execute the command (in an xterm):
The files are now available in /mnt/floppy. EG: "cp /mnt/floppy/* /home/vasanthraghavan/"

When you are finished, run the command
Make sure that you are not currently in any subdirectory of /mnt/floppy, or it wont let you unmount the disk. Make sure you do this, otherwise you will lose data.

I hope this helps
--Ian

Thank you. it worked. my apologies for acknowledging so late.(did not have access to a monitor while in India, to try out and look at the output of the commands)