Re: How to mount a dos floppy ?

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On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 11:19 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> How do I mount an old dos floppy without making additions to fstab? 
> 
> I assume there is a proper way to do this since an icon comes up on the 
> desktop when I plug the disk in to the drive but it can't deal with the 
> file system apparently and refuses to mount.  I don't know the magic 
> incantation for the command line.
> 
> I have a few disks I need to extract text [.doc] files from.
> 
> Bob Goodwinis

The easiest way to do that is with the mtools commands(mdir, mcopy,etc.)

mdir a:/ will give you the directory of the floppy
mcopy a:/foo  ./    will copy the file foo to the current directory. 

Although mounting the floppy with file type msdos should also work.


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