How to mount a dos floppy ?
Bob Goodwin
bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Thu Jul 12 15:49:00 UTC 2007
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.
So I created /media/floppy/ That works, is it the "usual/correct" way?
Bob Goodwin
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