How to mount a floppy using breezy LIVE CD?

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Fri Sep 16 09:25:03 UTC 2005


On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 08:19:52PM +1200, Mike wrote:
>I have been asked to pass on the contents of two files to the devs to
>help fix a bug. My computer fails to Start X server when loading the
>Live CD so I am at the mercy of the command line. I can see the
>contents of those files but don't know how to copy them for
>transmission to the bug fixers.  If I can mount a floppy, remembering
>it's the Live CD, ... that should help.
>
>Also what is the copy command to get the files onto the floppy.
>
>In appreciation and anticipation :)

Something like this should mount it (you might need to create
/mnt/floppy first):

 $ sudo mount -w -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

After that it should be possible to use 'cp' to copy files. Don't forget
to 'umount' before ejecting the floppy.

Note that I haven't actually tried this on a LiveCD, but I don't see why
it wouldn't work.

/M

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