linuxgeek: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Mounting the floppy drive

Saturday, July 6, 2013

[LINUX_Newbies] Re: Mounting the floppy drive

--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, James Jolin <james.jolin@...> wrote:
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> Loyal,,
> No I looked at /dev with midnight commander. I do see the floppy in
> /etc/fstab. I will run the mount command and see what happens.
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
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> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 9:32 PM, loyal_barber <loyal_barber@...> wrote:
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> > --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, James Jolin <james.jolin@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I am using Mint 13 and I tried to mount the floppy using the mount
> > > command. The floppy is in the media directory, but not in the dev
> > > directory. In fact there is not any devices in the dev directory. I think
> > > I've forgotten some basic linux stuff. Need someone to quick start my
> > > brain.
> > > Jim wa9arb
> > > <snip>
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> > When you checked for devices under /dev, did you use a command similar
> > to the following:
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> > sudo ls /dev
> >
> > There are always entries under /dev. I have not used a floppy in a
> > while but I believe they are listed as /dev/fd*. However another
> > way you can check given that it shows up as mounted under /media
> > is just the command "mount" which will tell you everything mounted
> > currently.
> >
> > Hope this is what you are looking for.
> >
> > Loyal
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try

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt

Assuming your floppy is formatted with FAT12. It doesn't have to be, but there is a fair chance it is.

You should be able to fdisk the floppy device first to check what filesystem type it is.

fdisk -l /dev/fd0

Should print out what fdisk thinks is going on. I'd try it out to be sure but none of the systems I run have floppy drives in them anymore. The last time I tried to use a floppy all of the drives I had were messed up from age. I couldn't get one drive to read a disk I'd written in another one. Since then I have not bothered with the things myself.