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Re: Mounting floppy.



On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Boltyansky Boris wrote:

> My ISP doesn't support internet connection using linux so I have to
> download Linux software in Windows.

you're the sysadmin at your company, demand your boss to pay your
internet bills and get a standard PPP account.

> Recently I've downloaded 6 MB and I wanted to copy them to my Linux
> partition.

mount the windos partition from the runing linux. I suppose your drive C
is /dev/hda1, so do:

mkdir /dosc
mount /dev/hda1 -t vfat /dosc

should work like a charm, you will be able to see your files.

man mount.

if you want it nounted every time linux boots:
man fstab

if you want it to mount utomagicly only when you need it:
man 5 autofs


> 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.

OUCH. I'd love to know if you can connect to surfree from linux with
windows running in a VMWare window :-)

> BTW can RedHat Linux 6.1 read winzip's *.zip files?

in theory, yes. I don't know about support of special features like
multivolume. you may want to try arj or rar, as linux unarj and unrar
support multivolume.

-- 
Ira Abramov ; Penguinophile ; www.linux.org.il 
"What you end up with, after running an operating system concept through
these many marketing coffee filters, is something not unlike plain hot
water."
(By Matt Welsh)


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