How to read a floppy disk created with windows?

[Ron Hawkins]

Ashley Benton wrote:
> Sorry, my mistake I forgot the space. Yes that did work. Do I have to
> unmount it if I need to see another floppy disk or just eject and put
> the next one? and unmount once I am done? And would be sudo unmount
> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy the good command?
> Thank you
> Meg
>
> On 10/19/07, *Ron Hawkins* <ron at mooly.org <mailto:ron at mooly.org>> wrote:
>
>     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>
>     <mailto: 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.
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Glad that worked for you.  yes, you need to unmount before ejecting
disks to let teh system synchronize files that might be still held in
the cache. 

the command to unmount the floppy is :

umount /dev/fd0

Have a great day!