How to read a floppy disk created with windows?

[Ashley Benton]

Thank you
Have a great day too.
Meg

On 10/19/07, Ron Hawkins <ron at mooly.org> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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