personally, I prefer not to use mtools as I'm more comfortable with Unix
commands and do not mind doing a mount.
Reena,
if you want to stick to DOS-like commands and hate mounting the floppy
everytime you change the floppy, get mtools.
However, if the swapping of floppies are far and few in between and okay
with mounting/umounting whenever you change the floppy (like myself), just
issue the command:
mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /a (to mount)
umount /a (to unmount)
Better still, insert a line in your /etc/fstab file:
/dev/fd0 auto /a noauto 0 0
and you can
mount /a (to mount)
umount /a (to unmount)
After the floppy is mounted, you can use any of the unix utilties like cp, mv.
GZ
Petre Daniel wrote:
isnt there some mtools package?
try "apt-get install mtools" or something..
then use commands like "mdir" "mcd" "mformat" "mcopy" "mdel"
the full list you'll find out by issuing "mtools" command only,
good luck.
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De la: Reena Mahbubani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trimis: Monday, December 03, 2001 2:43 PM
Catre: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subiect: How do you access your floppy drive?
Hi, I'm using Woody Debian Linux
And I dont have the GUI installed.
I was wondering how you access your floppy drive from the command line
Also, How do you install the GUI?
Any responses to either of these questions as soon as possible would be
greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Reena Mahbubani
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