Hardy and Floppy Disk (SOLVED)

[Neil Winchurst]

Edmund Laugasson wrote:
> 
> 
> What about MToolsFM? It uses mtools utilities, which are especially meant for DOS floppies. MToolsFM 
> is a graphical frontend for mtools. It allows access to DOS-formatted media without mounting.
> 
> Homepage - http://mtoolsfm.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Can be installed:
> 
> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install mtoolsfm && sudo ldconfig && sudo dpkg --configure -a 
> && sudo apt-get clean
> 
> 
> $ sudo apt-cache show mtoolsfm
> Package: mtoolsfm
> Priority: optional
> Section: universe/otherosfs
> Installed-Size: 260
> Architecture: i386
> Version: 1.9-3-5ubuntu1
> Filename: pool/universe/m/mtoolsfm/mtoolsfm_1.9-3-5ubuntu1_i386.deb
> Size: 64018
> Description: a graphical user interface for accessing dos formatted floppies
>   MToolsFM is a graphical interface to the mtools package, which provides
>   stateless (= no mounting) access to FAT (DOS) formatted floppy diskettes.
> 
Well, I'm sure that would work well, but as I said my floppy disks are 
formatted as Ext2. There doesn't seem to be any problem with using them 
and having two should make it fairly safe. I don't really need to use 
anything with DOS formatting. Wow, that takes me back.

Neil