On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 11:19 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
How do I mount an old dos floppy without making additions to fstab?
I assume there is a proper way to do this since an icon comes up on the
desktop when I plug the disk in to the drive but it can't deal with the
file system apparently and refuses to mount. I don't know the magic
incantation for the command line.
I have a few disks I need to extract text [.doc] files from.
Bob Goodwinis
The easiest way to do that is with the mtools commands(mdir, mcopy,etc.)
mdir a:/ will give you the directory of the floppy
mcopy a:/foo ./ will copy the file foo to the current directory.
Although mounting the floppy with file type msdos should also work.
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