On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 04:18:40PM -0400, Louis Garcia II wrote: > On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 12:57 -0700, alan wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 15:54 -0400, Louis Garcia II wrote: > > > I found some old floppys and wanted to see what they were. Popped them > > > in and couldn't mount the drive. Gnome desktop's Computer didn't have an > > > icon so I went to System/Administration/Hardware which showed the > > > hardware. /dev/fd0 was there but nothing in fstab. > > > > Can you mount them by hand? > > > > mount /dev/fd0 /mnt > > Yes, I can mount it in the terminal. I edited fstab and created /media/floppy and > now gnome sees the drive. Seems the installer didn't do the proper things for > the floppy. You should also be able to use "mtools" to look at them without having to mount them. mdir should produce a directory listing mcopy a:<file.nam> ./ should copy <file.nam> to the current directory (etc...) This does presume that the disks are M$-DOS formatted with FAT or VFAT structures. --Wolfe -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
