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Re: [Sheflug] Re: mounting a floppy



On Monday 09 Sep 2002 3:01 pm, you wrote:
> Can you mount the floppy with "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy"? (obviously,
> first check that the directory /mnt/floppy exists: create it if not.)

Yes. If you do not have an entry in /etc/fstab, you need to be root to do it 
and you will have to specify a file type - something like:

mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
or
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

>
> If not, is it formatted? (To format it, use "fdformat /dev/fd0H1440")
>
That will work. Once it is fiormatted, you need to create a filesystem on it, 
eg.
mkdosfs /dev/fd0H1440
or
mkefs /dev/fd0H1440

Then it will be mountable - most GUI desktops (gnome and KDE for two) have 
GUI tools that do all this for you automatically if you prefer. (eg. 
"kfloppy" and "gfloppy"

> > Also I've been looking at the man pages........Is there a way to
> > specifically search for a topic?
>

Try "apropos". e.g. "apropos floppy" On my system this produces:

drakfloppy           (1)  - Front end for creating boot disks
fdformat             (8)  - Low-level formats a floppy disk
floppyd              (1)  - floppy daemon for remote access to floppy drive 
floppyd_installtest - tests whether floppyd is installed and running
floppyd_installtest  (1)  - tests whether floppyd is installed and running
gfloppy              (1)  - a simple floppy formatter for the GNOME
mbadblocks           (1)  - tests a floppy disk, and marks the bad blocks in 
the FAT
mformat              (1)  - add an MSDOS filesystem to a low-level formatted 
floppy disk
mkbootdisk           (8)  - creates a stand-alone boot floppy for the running 
system
mkrescue             (8)  - make rescue floppy
setfdprm             (8)  - sets user-provided floppy disk parameters

You can then man each of them in turn for more detail.

Pieter
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