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?
<br>Thank you<br>Meg<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ron Hawkins</b> <<a href="mailto:ron@mooly.org">ron@mooly.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ashley Benton wrote:<br>> Thank you for your answer, I tried but the terminal answers me :<br>> mount: can't find /dev/fd0/media/floppy in /etc/fstab or //etc/mtab<br>> It is the first time that I am trying to use my floppy drive is there
<br>> something that I should have done? Why the terminal can't find it?<br>> Thank you<br>> Meg<br>><br>> On 10/19/07, *Ron Hawkins* <<a href="mailto:ron@mooly.org">ron@mooly.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ron@mooly.org">
ron@mooly.org</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> Ashley Benton wrote:<br>> > Hi, I am lost again.<br>> > I used Ubuntu 6.10 and need to open a floppy disk that had been<br>> made<br>> > by windows (don't know which one, maybe 98 or XP) The floppy disk
<br>> > contains pictures and I need to see and print some of them. I<br>> did cd<br>> > /dev, then ls and most of what is inside is written in yellow with a<br>> > black fond. I was wondering what it meaned? Also I tried cd /dev
<br>> cat ?<br>> > but apparently that's binary because all I was was signs without<br>> > meaning for me. Does anybody knows how I can actually see the<br>> pictures<br>> > that are on this disk drive?
<br>> > All help would be appreciated<br>> > Meg<br>> Mount the floppy disk by invoking the command:<br>><br>> mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy<br>><br>> Then look at /media/floppy for your image files.
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