How to read a floppy disk created with windows?

[Ron Hawkins]

Ashley Benton wrote:
> Thank you for your answer, I tried but the terminal answers me :
> mount: can't find /dev/fd0/media/floppy in /etc/fstab or //etc/mtab
> It is the first time that I am trying to use my floppy drive is there
> something that I should have done? Why the terminal can't find it?
> Thank you
> Meg
>
> On 10/19/07, *Ron Hawkins* <ron at mooly.org <mailto:ron at mooly.org>> wrote:
>
>     Ashley Benton wrote:
>     > Hi, I am lost again.
>     >  I used Ubuntu 6.10 and need to open a floppy disk that had been
>     made
>     > by windows (don't know which one, maybe 98 or XP) The floppy disk
>     > contains pictures and I need to see and print some of them. I
>     did cd
>     > /dev, then ls and most of what is inside is written in yellow with a
>     > black fond. I was wondering what it meaned? Also I tried cd /dev
>     cat ?
>     > but apparently that's binary because all I was was signs without
>     > meaning for me. Does anybody knows how I can actually see the
>     pictures
>     > that are on this disk drive?
>     > All help would be appreciated
>     > Meg
>     Mount the floppy disk by invoking the command:
>
>     mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
>
>     Then look at /media/floppy for your image files.
>
>
>
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mount /dev/fd0 (space ) /media/floppy

Make sure you have /media/floppy directory.

that should work.