<div>On 9/20/07, Mike McCarty <<a href="mailto:Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net">Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Bob Goodwin wrote: > 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 Goodwin >> > mount /dev/fd0 -t vfat /media Works but it dumps all the files in /media. It is preferable to use mount /dev/fd0 -t msdos /path/to/empty/directory/for/mount/point Note that vfat and msdos are NOT the same. For use with old MSDOS formatted discs, msdos is preferable. Mike -- </blockquote></div> Gents, is the /etc/floppy file needed for /dev/fd0 to work? The file /etc/floppy does not exist in a newly installed system, so I read somewhere that in order to use the floppy you have to create the file with the command # floppy --createrc >/etc/floppy But even after executing the command in FC7 I could not format the floppy using /dev/fd0, I had to use # fdformat /dev/fd0u1440. Please note that the file /dev/fd0 did exist. Any comments appreciated. ~Aldo.