<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> On 04/11/2010 15:42, Paul Gear wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4CD239C8.4080906@libertysys.com.au" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 04/11/10 09:13, Matthew Hannigan wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">If you just want to get some stuff of floppy, just use mtools. Don't bother mounting </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> This is good advice. Get the stuff off with mtools, then forget about the floppies! :-) </pre> </blockquote> Normally would be the case and therefore good advice. But not everybody runs the latest and greatest pieces of equipment - nor want to. There are still some systems running Linux systems - like one of my computers - which require to use the floppy to do a BIOS upgrade. BC <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Gumperson's Law: The probability of anything happening is in inverse proportion to its desirability. </pre> </body> </html>