Mounting floppies
One of the things people moving from windows to linux find strange is that you have to mount cd’s and floppies to read them. You have to say to the system that you want it to handle floppies before you open it, and to stop handling it before you eject the floppy. Here is a howto.
NB: This is a general Linux solution to this. Many distributions have easier approaches to do this
- Insert the floppy into the drive.
- Open a terminal (xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole…..)
- Change to super-user mode (type
su -and give the super-user (root) password) - Mount the floppy by typing
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy - Open your favorite filemanager, and point it to /mnt/floppy
- Do whatever you need to do
- Unmount the floppy by typing
umount /mnt/floppy - Eject the floppy
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