Re: How do you access your floppy drive?
Reena Mahbubani wrote:
>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
The DOS way is via the use of the mtools (mformat, mcopy, mdir, etc...). Just do apt-get install mtools if you don't have the package
yet.
The UNIX way is to mount the floppy drive first (you can get away
with mount /floppy since more probable than not the mounting of the
floppy drive for all users is already declared at the /etc/fstab
file). then cd to that directory and it will now behave like a normal
directory in the filesystem. Note that you need to unmount the
drive first before you take it out (or risk corruption of data in
the floppy drive).
>Also, How do you install the GUI?
There are a lot of GUI available for Linux. Basically, you need
to install the X-Window environment (XFree86 4.x) and a window
manager. If you have the tasksel package running (more often than
not you have it) then run it and it would simplify installation
(though you might have some bloatware installed along the way,
which you can also uninstall individually via dselect or apt-get)
Paolo Falcone
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