[Gllug] linux and floppy disks

[bredroll]

On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Richard Clamp wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 05:14:07PM -0400, Ian Norton wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I was working on an idea for linux boxen in schools, one stumbling block i
> > could see is the mounting and unmounting of floppies. is there any way to not
> > need to do this? maybe mounting the floppy with 0 caching? i dunno.
> 
> If you want to avoid mounting altogether using mtools and dos floppies
> may be useful.
> 

I want to allow the disk to appear as mounted. will mtools allow this? ie
i want people to use /mnt/floppy as a normal drive.

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