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Re: Newbie floppy disk access question



On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:20:42AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote:
> I am trying to load a tar file driver from floppy
> disk. There is a file "floppy" in my root directory.
> This is empty. How do I find the file on my floppy disk?

This is not a floppy file. It is an empty directory, mostly used to
mount your floppy disk to. And that's what you have to do before you can
access your floppy.

	$ mount -t <fs> /dev/fd0 /floppy

where <fs> is the filesystem present on your floppy-disk.

MfG/Regards, Willi

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