Re: linux on sis

[Subbiah Muthukalayappan <subbiahm@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Adityan,

Linux will recognise the DOS format. Try the following commands to mount
the floppy drive (You should be able to find an empty directory called 
/mnt/floppy in your linux machine - If not create it).

$ mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

After this command your floppy should get mounted. The -t option is used 
to specify the filesystem type (msdos in this case). /dev/fd0 is how
your
floppy is identified. /mnt/floppy is the directory where it will be 
mounted. Copy the files from the floppy using the cp command. After your 
work is done with the floppy you will be required to unmount it. For
that 
you need to run the following command 

$ umount /dev/fd0

Your floppy drive should get unmounted after this. You should login as
root
to do the mounting and unmounting.

Hope this helps

Regards
Subbiah

Adityan Murthy wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot for the link.  My friend downloaded it but it is on his other
> pc which has only MS windows.  So he will have to copy it on to a floppy.
> But will linux recognise it? I don't know bcos i've never tried using one.
> btw, what is the mount command for mounting the floppy (shell command).
>
> Adityan

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