fun of being an idiot newbie....

[ChargerIIC]

I feel embarssed to ask, but I put several zip files on disk and can't figure out how to switch to my fd0 drive! :(

[FoBoT]

you just change to the directory that "is" the floppy drive

for example, some distros have a directory in the root (/) called floppy. when the floppy drive is mounted (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/filesys/filesysintro.html)
then the floppy drive device (/dev/fd0) files can be viewed by changing (cd) to the /floppy directory

some distros put the floppy "directory" into /mount or /mnt, so it would be "cd /mnt/flpy" for example

have a nice day! :)

[Strike]

In the interest of one-liners, this might tell you where the mount point of your floppy drive is in one single command (type in a console):

grep fd /etc/fstab | awk '{print $2}'

For me it looks like this:
[ddipaolo@half-life ddipaolo]$ grep fd /etc/fstab | awk '{print $2}'
/floppy

But, you may also get several answers back. The one that looks most like what FoBoT describes above SHOULD be your floppy drive's mount point. If you read through the NHF he linked to above, you should be good to go from there.

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[ 08 February 2001: Message edited by: Strike ]