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Topic: File system in DSL, how does it work?

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mikshaw

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Posted: Aug. 29 2006,18:43

You can't access the contents of a mounted disk by copying the device itself. It must first be mounted and then you access it through the /mnt directory. What you did was basically make an image of the floppy disk (I don't know if it's a useable image, but it's definitely not the contents of the disk). I believe Underdog should have used "/mnt" where he used "/dev"

To mount a floppy, there must be a readable disk in the drive. Use the command mount /mnt/floppy in a terminal and see what message you might receive.

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Posted: Aug. 29 2006,20:21

ok. Sorry to any and everyone who tried that command and had it result in total failure. I wasn't totally sure that was it, I was just shooting from the hip, as it were. My bad.

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Posted: Aug. 29 2006,21:24

afflusso

I hope that I won't cause more confusion by suggesting using emelfm. Click on the file cabinet icon and emelfm shows your directories and if you have a floppy in the drive just right click on the floppy directory and choose mount.

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Posted: Aug. 30 2006,13:59

Mikshaw, when I tried your command, I got this message.

Can't find /mnt/floppy in etc/fstab or etc/mstab

u2musicmikke, your method sounds easier, but I'm not sure what to do exactly. Do you mean the floppy directory in the main, or /mnt/floppy?

And after doing that, where would the floppy's contents be?
Thanks.

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Posted: Aug. 30 2006,15:02

Sorry....I didn't realize until looking into it that in a live cd or frugal system, /mnt/floppy is apparently a link to /mnt/auto/floppy...at least in my system. I suppose it might instead be /floppy depending on your setup.

What I would do is look in /etc/fstab to see if floppy is even listed there. If not, the device was not detected.

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