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- From: ianj@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Ian Justman )
- Subject: Re: Floppy Drives
- References: <1992Nov18.031049.28636@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca>
- Organization: Citrus Grove Public Access ( 916 ) 381-5822 Sacramento CA. USA
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:40:21 GMT
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- cs911169@ariel.yorku.ca (Douglas W. F. Acheson) writes:
- : HI,
-
- 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
-
- First of all, you do not use mtools to mount a disk; you use mount(1) to
- mount a disk. If you're mounting a Minix-filesystem type disk, you use:
-
- mount /dev/fd[0|1] /mount_pnt/path
-
- where /mount_pnt/path is your desired mounting point.
-
- If it's a DOS diskette, you issue the command like this:
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- mount -t msdos /dev/fd[0|1] /mount_pnt/path
-
- and that's all there is to it. Not only does that apply to mounting DOS
- diskettes, you can mount MS-DOS partitions in this manner.
-
- As for mtools, all it's used for is to do DOS housekeeping under Linux,
- including copying, deleting files, formatting disks, making directories,
- removing directories, and more.
- --
- Born to void warranties! ianj@ijpc.UUCP
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