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- From: rafal@utstat.uucp (Rafal Kustra (summer student))
- Subject: Re: Floppy Drives
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.052658.13901@utstat.uucp>
- Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
- References: <1992Nov18.031049.28636@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 05:26:58 GMT
- Lines: 61
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- In article <1992Nov18.031049.28636@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca> cs911169@ariel.yorku.ca (Douglas W. F. Acheson) writes:
- >HI,
- >
- >I have just installed linux on my PC and am having a hard time to do
- >the following:
- >
- >mounting the floppy drives (so I can read write to them)
- >using mtools with the floppy drives
- >
- >I would appreciate it if someone could get back to me so I could chat
- >with them about the problem. E-mail is preferred. Thanks in advance
- >
- >
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-
- I post it, even though it is rather a general Unix (admin
- I suppose) question, since many Linux user are
- beginners in both Unix and Unix admin.
-
- Ok. You mount the disk, so it appears as part of your
- directory structure. Say you mount it
- mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
- and if you
- cd /floppy
- ls
- you are listing the contents of the floppy.
- To do that, the floppy must contain one of the supported
- file systems (Minix, efs, Dos, Xenix).
- To mount a floppy with different fs than Minix, you
- specify it with the flag -t <fs>, to mount. Note that
- Xenix is not officially supported.
- Now, to make a fs you use
- mkfs or mkefs.
- If you want to use mtools, you have to set it first
- correcly ;), and than just use it as in dos (ie no
- mounting).
- mcp foo a:
- for example.
- Usage of mtools is quite limited now, since you can mount
- dos as a regular disk (mount -t msdos /dev/fd[01]
- /floppy).
- Such disk should be formatted with dos format. (which
- also puts filesystem structure, hence confusion).
-
-
- Rafal
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