Re: floppy

[Torsten Hilbrich <Torsten.Hilbrich@bln.de>]

Tao Lu <txl3063@usl.edu> writes:

> Hi:
> 
> What's the command to mount floppy driver and how to access the
> floppy?

First create a directory /floppy

Then execute 

   mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy     # msdos formatted

or

   mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy      # win95 formatted

Use fd1 for your second floppy disk.

If you get error messages about vfat or msdos unknown you need to
check your kernel configuration.

If you add a line similiar like

/dev/fd0  /floppy vfat	noauto,user,gid=25,umask=002    0	0

to your /etc/fstab you can mount floppies using

        mount /floppy

The group 25 is floppy and is used to let normal users (members of
floppy) access the floppy read/write.

        Torsten

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