Very Computer

The may be an completly inane question but how do i access my floppy
disk drive in linux?
Or am i simply looking at linux with a win95 mentality!
e-mail me direct if you can help!!

If you execute:
'cat /etc/fstab/' you should see /dev/fd0 in there somewhere

It might have something like /floppy associated with it.  If
so, issue:

'mount floppy'
'cd /floppy'

Of course this assumes that this disk was already formatted as a linux
(minix) disk.  If it is windows, you have to change the
way you mount the /dev/fd0.  (e.g. mount -t vfat)  Anyways,
if all of this is new, you have some reading to do....

1. make a new directory anywhere you want it:
    mkdir /home/user/floppy             or
    mkdir /floppy
2. insert floppy into the drive
3. mount it:
    mount /dev/fdc /home/user/floppy        or
    mount /dev/fdc /floppy

It appears that a simple "mount /dev/fd0 /floppy" autodetects the floppy
as a vanilla ms-dos system.  Is "vfat" that name of uSoft's new floppy
format?  

(By the way, some earlier SuSe systems require the victim to revise a
symbolic link from /dev/fd0 to /dev/fd00h360 (for a 5.24" single density
floppy) or /dev/fd0h1440 (for a 3.5" double density) or whatever.  This
appears to happen automagically in SuSe 6.0.)

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Quote:> (By the way, some earlier SuSe systems require the victim to revise a
> symbolic link from /dev/fd0 to /dev/fd00h360 (for a 5.24" single density
> floppy) or /dev/fd0h1440 (for a 3.5" double density) or whatever.  This
> appears to happen automagically in SuSe 6.0.)

I don't think so. fd0 is the first FDD -- and the kernel should figure the
rest out itself. It has a distict device number (major 2, minor 0).
the other device names are build like fd<Number><Driver><Capacity>,
so fd0H1440 is the first FDD, 3.5" high density, 1440 KBytes. For further
info check man 4 fd and /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt.

   Peter
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