Reading a diskette

[PeterOD]

You can tell I'm new to this? No?

I've got the XFCE desktop running and I want to read a diskette as the only 'puter I have with a diskette drive is this old Satellite - I just couldn't see how to do it and Salvo Montalbano was calling.
Can anyone enlighten me?

Peter

[DeBaas]

Check if mtools is installed.
In Terminal you have all kind of floppy commands
mtools
Supported commands:
mattrib, mbadblocks, mcat, mcd, mclasserase, mcopy, mdel, mdeltree
mdir, mdoctorfat, mdu, mformat, minfo, mlabel, mmd, mmount
mpartition, mrd, mread, mmove, mren, mshowfat, mshortname, mtoolstest
mtype, mwrite, mzip

[Hootiegibbon]

Launch PCC (Configure your computer) and take a look under "local disks"

There should be an option for the FDD in order to mount it, it will then become available graphically via your file-manager

Jase

[marcin82]

You can try also manually mount device - this will give info if there are any problems (as root):

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mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mediaIs there your floppy visible at file?:

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/boot/grub/device.map