On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 04:18:40PM -0400, Louis Garcia II wrote:
On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 12:57 -0700, alan wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 15:54 -0400, Louis Garcia II wrote:
> > I found some old floppys and wanted to see what they were. Popped them
> > in and couldn't mount the drive. Gnome desktop's Computer didn't
have an
> > icon so I went to System/Administration/Hardware which showed the
> > hardware. /dev/fd0 was there but nothing in fstab.
>
> Can you mount them by hand?
>
> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
Yes, I can mount it in the terminal. I edited fstab and created /media/floppy and
now gnome sees the drive. Seems the installer didn't do the proper things for
the floppy.
You should also be able to use "mtools" to look at them without having to mount
them.
mdir
should produce a directory listing
mcopy a:<file.nam> ./
should copy <file.nam> to the current directory
(etc...)
This does presume that the disks are M$-DOS formatted with FAT or VFAT structures.
--Wolfe