big fat newbie question.

[siqe]

I've always just ftp'ed files to one computer to another, but i want ot use a floppy now. uhhh, how do i do that? Say i have a file in my home directoy called eventgen.cpp and i just want it on the floppy what do I type to make it work? :(

[Tyr-7BE]

What distro are you running? Some distros (eg Mandrake) will mount everything they can get their hands on for you. Here's a brief rundown. First off, insert the floppy (duh)

1) Choose a mount point (make a new directory called "floppy" if you must...Drake and possibly RedHat have a /mnt directory where all of this stuff takes place and it might automount it for you).../path/to/mountpoint

2) "mount /dev/floppy /path/to/mountpoint" or if that doesn't work, "mount /dev/fd0 /path/to/mountpoint".

3) "cp eventgen.cpp /path/to/mountpoint"

4) Eject floppy

With a little luck and a lot of pixie dust, you'll have your floppy working in no time :)

[Baron Flambe]

If you need to mount the floppy manually (mount /dev/floppy... ) you must unmount it again before you eject it otherwise things go all to ****.

umount /dev/floppy

*Then* eject it.

As Tyr-7BE said, if you're using Mandrake it'll mount and unmount removable media automatically. If you're not sure, do a umount anyway it won't hurt if you don't need it.

[Tyr-7BE]

Ah yeah...forgot about that unmount thing...damnit...sorry :o

[siqe]

thank you both

[Stween]

Or, since this is a "big fat newbie question", if you are using KDE it will try and mount the floppy for you if you click the icon on the desktop. Dont know about GNOME, but i figure it would do the same...

But *definately* the command line is more powerful and, IMHO, easier and quicker to use. And more reliable. So there.

Stween.