How to mount a dos floppy ?

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> Bob Goodwin wrote:
>> 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 Goodwin
>>>
>> mount /dev/fd0 -t vfat /media   Works but it dumps all the files in
>> /media.
> 
> It is preferable to use
> 
> mount /dev/fd0 -t msdos /path/to/empty/directory/for/mount/point
> 
> Note that vfat and msdos are NOT the same. For use with old
> MSDOS formatted discs, msdos is preferable.
> 
> Mike
Why not use "gnome-mount -d /dev/fd0"? It can be run by a normal
user, as log as they are the console user. (Logged into the machine
locally.)

Then again, if you only want to copy files off the floppies, you can
use mtools.

Mikkel
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