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Old 11-23-2004, 02:08 AM   #1
vasanthraghavan
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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.
 
Old 11-23-2004, 02:39 AM   #2
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Insert the disk in the drive, and execute the command (in an xterm):
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mount /mnt/floppy
The files are now available in /mnt/floppy. EG: "cp /mnt/floppy/* /home/vasanthraghavan/"

When you are finished, run the command
Code:
umount /mnt/floppy
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
 
Old 02-01-2005, 07:17 PM   #3
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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)
 
  


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