Re: [TCLUG:224] RE: LUG - bash error and fat32

[Christopher Reid Palmer <jaymz@acm.cs.umn.edu>]

On Wed, 20 May 1998, Ben Kochie wrote:

> it does not require any compilcation to use floppies in linux..

Yeah: complication is optional. :)

> either use a pre-formated dos disk, or do this
> 
> # mkdosfs /dev/fd0
> 
> then you can mount it
> # mkdir /mnt/fd
> # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/fd

This is all very Slackwarian. Since you're using Red Hat, you may need to
modify these commands slightly:

# fdformat /dev/fd0H1440
# mkfs -t msdos /dev/fd0

Red Hat already has /mnt/floppy ready for you, you don't need to 'mkdir
/mnt/fd'. But you can if you like.

then, to mount and un-mount:

# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
# umount /mnt/floppy

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