Re: Problem recognising floppy with debian
* shane <shane@wineworld.com.au> [020405 10:38]:
> G'day,
> I have just installed Debian on an old IBM 486SL so that I can learn
> GNU/Linux for my university subject.
Congratulations. You won't regret it.
> I have installed the OP successfully using just the A drive though now
> that I am up and running, I can't access the A drive. (my only source
> of communication with the outside world, on that computer...)
>
> I believe I need to "mount" the floppy.
You're perfectly right. To mount the floppy, use
mount /floppy
Afterwards you will find the content of the floppy in the /floppy
directory, try
ls /foppy
Before you remove the floppy, be shure to run
umount /floppy
(it's really 'umount' and not 'unmount', although I heard the missing
'n' is one of the points the inventors of unix are really sad about :-))
Alternative way: If you have the package 'mtools' installed, you can use
mdir a:
For further help on this, run
man mtools
Last word: If you're serious about Linux, try to get at least one good
book. As I'm german, I can't say which english books are good, although
I heard much nice things about the O'Reilley ones.
Have fun,
Karsten
--
Karsten Heymann <karsten.heymann@gmx.de> <karsten@ecology.uni-kiel.de>
CAU-University Kiel, Germany
Registered Linux User #221014 (http://counter.li.org)
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
Reply to: