Copying from floppy
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sat May 6 21:11:00 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 16:36 -0400, Annette T Robart wrote:
>
> Hi again,
>
> I’m sorry for another dizzy question, but since this is all very new
> to me, please forgive my ignorance J
>
> I am trying to copy files from my floppy to my hard drive…..
>
> How do I accomplish this? Does this have to be done through a command
> line, and if so, what do I have to type in to have this happen?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Annette
The simplest way is using mtools suite, Put your floppy in and use the
mtools commands: mcopy, mdir etc. Works like DOS commands with the
floppy being the a:/ drive,
e.g. mcopy a:/floppy_file /tmp
You can also mount the floppy and then use linux commasnds like cp to
do the copy.
>
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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