Re: Rãspuns: How do you access your floppy drive?

[Gong Zeng <gong_zeng@yahoo.com>]

personally, I prefer not to use mtools as I'm more comfortable with Unix 
commands and do not mind doing a mount.

Reena,
	if you want to stick to DOS-like commands and hate mounting the floppy 
everytime you change the floppy, get mtools.

However, if the swapping of floppies are far and few in between and okay 
with mounting/umounting whenever you change the floppy (like myself), just 
issue the command:
mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /a (to mount)
umount /a (to unmount)

Better still, insert a line in your /etc/fstab file:
/dev/fd0 auto /a noauto 0 0

and you can
mount /a (to mount)
umount /a (to unmount)

After the floppy is mounted, you can use any of the unix utilties like cp, mv.

GZ

Petre Daniel wrote:

> isnt there some mtools package?
> try "apt-get install mtools" or something..
> then use commands like "mdir" "mcd" "mformat" "mcopy" "mdel"
> the full list you'll find out by issuing "mtools" command only,
> good luck.
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> De la: Reena Mahbubani [mailto:reena_mahbubani@hotmail.com]
> Trimis: Monday, December 03, 2001 2:43 PM
> Catre: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subiect: How do you access your floppy drive?
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> Hi, I'm using Woody Debian Linux
> And I dont have the GUI installed.
> I was wondering how you access your floppy drive from the command line
> Also, How do you install the GUI?
> Any responses to either of these questions as soon as possible would be
> greatly appreciated.
> Thank you.
>
> Reena Mahbubani
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