🚀 go-pugleaf

Robert Heininger wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2 Apr 2000 20:11:57 +1000,
> <hammerheads@optusnet.com.au> `Tom' wrote:
> 
> >> hi there
> >> can i use disks from windoze to my linux box?
> >> if yes, how do i do it?
> >> i am using rh6.1
> >> thanx in advance
> >> tom
> 
> Tom:
> 
> These two commands will work with #1 being the prefered method using the
> vfat file system.
> 
> 1)  mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> 
> 2)  mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> 
> Using mount without the "-t filesystem" argument assumes a Linux ext2 file
> system. You can mount FAT16, FAT32 & NTFS windoze partitions, also.
> "man mount" for more info.
> 
> To unmount:
> 
> umount /mnt/floppy
> 
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For floppies the simplest way I have found is to create 2 entries in the
fstab and 2 mount points in the /mnt directory referring to the same
device /dev/fd0.  

/dev/fd0          /mnt/floppy    msdos   
noauto,owner,user,suid,exec,dev,rw    0 0
/dev/fd0         /mnt/fd0        ext2   
noauto,user,suid,exec,rw,dev    	0 0 
 
If you use a filemanager that automounts such as gentoo or gmc ?kfm you
simply put the floppy in the drive and navigate to floppy or fd0 in the
filesystem depending on  what format the floppies is using. If you use
the usermount program you can mount, unmout or reformat but  you  will
still need a filemanger to  access the files. 

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Paul U Cameron