I know it's probably not identical to Windows, but how does the filesystem work on DSL? I just installed it to my old 4GB computer and it's working pretty well.
Is there someway to navigate to the C: drive or its equivalent and find out how much empty space is there? Also, how would I explore a floppy I put it? And how do I save files to the desktop? Thanks in advance.You might want to do some reading about unix-like systems in general: http://www.tldp.org/guides.html
Of particular interest to you might be the Intro to Linux, Bash Beginner's Guide, and the Filesystem Hierarchy
Specific to your post, and to DSL.... DSL doesn't mount any drives automatically. use the mount command, or the mount application in the bottom right corner of the screen, to mount harddrives and floppies. Once mounted they are accessible through the /mnt directory.Thanks for the link. I haven't managed to mount the floppy drive. I did mount a cdrom, but I can't get the floppy to mount. I'm too frustrated to use terminal anymore, and clicking on the mount application in the bottom right only switches between cdrom and hda.
I know it's probably simple, so could someone give me a brief explanation of how to copy files from a floppy onto the hard drive? Thanks.
Code Sample
sudo mount /dev/sda1 sudo mount /dev/hda1 sudo cp /dev/sda1 /dev/hda1/Whatever_folder
I think that should work...
-Matthewunderdog,
When I tried your first command, it said that /dev/sda1 couldn't be found. In another tutorial it said that fd0 should be the floppy drive, so I tried this command:
sudo cp /dev/fd0 /home/dsl
And it sounded like it was reading the floppy drive. So when I went to look in /home/dsl, it added a file called fd0, which was 1.41 MB, about the size of the floppy. On the floppy I had a 250kb picture. When I try to open the file it created (fd0) it just shows about five random letters. I have a feeling I'm doing something wrong. Isn't there an easy way to do it without using terminal? If not, then what else could I try?Next Page...
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