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someonenearHim
10-28-2001, 01:15 AM
Can i use a FAT32 formatted floppy with Red Hat 7.1 Linux and vice vrsa without losing the data on it or reformatting ?

PuterFreaK
10-28-2001, 01:17 AM
(DOS) Floppy Disks use the FAT filesystem and yes, you can read them in linux.

bdg1983
10-28-2001, 05:40 AM
You have to remember that Linux can read and usually write just about to any kind of filesystem. Not like that other os that just likes it's own kind.

X_console
10-28-2001, 06:07 AM
mkdir /floppy
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy