Re: Unable to access Floppy drive and CD ROM Drive from command line or X

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From: Mr. Anti Spam
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 00:00

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Laurie & Stuart wrote:
> 
> I'm a Linux (slackware) newbie.  

Just copy the file normally to a normally dos formatted floppy. Boot
linux and use the mtools package or mount the floppy. *ALL* normal
filesystems in Linux/U*nx must be mounted to be used.

You may need to setup the floppy device /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1 to point
to the correct floppy type. There should be something on this in one of
the howtos and the floppy driver needs to be in the kernel.

mkdir /mnt/fd0
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0 -t msdos

fd0 = drive A: fd1= drive B: since linux counts from 0

Same for the CDROM, it needs to be mounted *after* the driver(s) have
been properly installed, you need both the cdrom driver and the ISO9660
driver then

mkdir /cdrom
mount /dev/hd? /cdrom -t ISO9660

? is the device it's been assigned usually hdc or hdd

> Stuart

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