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Re: Mounting a floppy drive (and other qustions)




On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, J K wrote:

> Thanks to the people that helped me out with installation!
> Now I have a couple of questions about the basics of Linux.
> I just installed my system, and it works good, except for three things:
> 
>         1. I can't mount the floppy drive.  Does anyone know how to do 
> this, or where I can find out how to?

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /a	(assuming MS-DOS floppy)

>         2. Is there a way to show only on screen at a time using ls 
> (like in DOS dir/p)?

ls | less

>         3. I type "mount --help" and the help scrolls by so fast I 
> cannot read it.  How can I change this?  

mount --help | less	(or mount --help 2>&1 | less)
man mount 		(better)

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