[Sussex] floppies - mounting and reading ?????

[John D.]

On Saturday 16 September 2006 19:23, John D. wrote:
> On Saturday 16 September 2006 19:03, John Crowhurst wrote:
> > On Sat, September 16, 2006 18:30, John D. wrote:
> > > How do I mount and read a floppy ?
> >
> > mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
> >
> > If vfat doesn't work, you could use msdos (you will have truncated files
> > to 8.3)
>
> Aaaaaaaaaahhhh! I see, thats the "missing link" then. The vfat or msdos bit
> when it's asking for a file system.
>
> I'll go and try that now.
Worked a treat (with msdos showing as the file system in the fstab).

Which means I got the files copied to Clares' home directory and don't get any 
crap for not being able to access the files.

I'm going to try it with vfat listed in the fstab as well, but if that doesn't 
want to play, it's not a problem, I'll just change it back to the msdos 
listing.

Thanks again John. 

regards

John D.