Where's my floopy drive?

[G.Wolfe Woodbury]

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