help with floppy drive

Sun Apr 23 19:49:57 UTC 2006

I get this error Error: given UDI is not a mountable volume.

On 4/23/06, Anders Karlsson <trudheim at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 12:43 -0400, William Biggs wrote:
> > My wife goes to school and has to do her work and save it to floppy .
> > But they use windows at school and saves to floppy . When she need to
> > use it at the house . Can she use it or will I have to run windows . I
> > hope i can. I really do not like windows ?
>
> You can read floppies that have DOS (FAT12) filesystem on them.
> Normally, the /media/floppy mount point is set up to auto-sense the
> filesystem in use on the floppy so it should work fine.
>
> You did not mention what type of work was saved onto the floppies. If
> the data saved requires a program that only exists in Windows and can
> not be run using Wine, then it matters little that you can read the
> floppies using Ubuntu. If it is word documents or excel spreadsheets,
> then OpenOffice should be more than enough.
>
> HTH,
>
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