How to mount a dos floppy ?

[Mike McCarty]

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
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