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Re: Mounting floppy.



Hi there!

Chen Shapira wrote:
> 
> > Recently I've downloaded 6 MB and I wanted to copy them to my Linux
> > partition.
> > I don't have VMware, and I don't have a CD-Writer so I have to use
> > floppy (3.5").
> > I've zipped those 6 MB into 5 floppys, and then restarted the computer
> > and booted Linux.
> > I've made a new directory: "/dev/diskette001" and I've tryed to mount
> > the first floppy:
> >
> > [b@localhost /dev]$ mount /dev/fd1 /diskette001
> >
> > I've got a message that told me to specify the file system, how will I
> > do that? (how should the command line look like?)
> 
> WUAAA! you are doing very wierd stuff!
> 
> why couldn't you mount the windows partition into linux and used cp to copy
> the file?

How will I do that?
 
> Thanks,
> Chen.
> 
> --
> Chen Shapira    Web Developer and Linux Activist
> "Preliminary operational tests were inconclusive (the damn thing blew up)"

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