Re: Cannot mount floppy drive in Squeeze
Why not download mtools and then try mdir a:/ and then try man mtools?
Even if floppy disks were inserted after booting I've been able to
access them using mtools in the past.
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote:
> Bob, Camaleon, Dom, Stephen, Tom & others,
>
> I am replying to the last message I found in the thread. If there
> is one later, I didn't ignore it deliberately.
>
> * From: Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>
> * Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 22:21:13 -0500 (EST)
> > No, the data is intact, as the mounting of the image file with
> > the loop option confirms. Also, further experimentation seems
> > to suggest that if the floppy disk is physically mounted in the
> > floppy drive during boot, then I can logically mount it with the
> > mount command after boot. This really is looking like a bug.
> > I intend to file a bug report, but I'd like to do some more
> > trial-and-error experimentation before I do.
>
> This is relevant.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=483781
>
> The best explanation appears to be cited by A.E. Patrakov in the bug report.
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.3/chapter08/fstab.html
> Scroll to the bottom of the page and read "Filesystems with MS-DOS ...".
>
> My encounter with this has been an attempt to make a bootable
> diskette for updating the BIOS on a Foxconn board. Did Foxconn
> have their filesystem mounted with UTF8 and the US codepage?
> If they used strictly ASCII filenames, are the encoding and
> codepage a concern?
>
> [Use MS or have more trouble than bargained for ... again!]
>
> Regards, ... Peter E.
>
>
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