Re: tlug: basic CD_ROM and Floppy matters

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Uchida Masatomo wrote:

> Hello, everybody.
>  Summer vacation is approaching.
> 
> Dave wrote:
> > Those of you who
> > get tired quickly of answering simple questions should move to the next
> > e-mail.
>  Even though it's a simple question, it's difficult to explain in foreign
> languages.
> 
> > 1. Every time i try to mount my CD-ROM, it says:
> >     mount: can't find /dev/hdc in /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab
> >     How do i resolve this?
> Answer A:
>  #mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
> 
> Answer B:
>  Add such line in /etc/fstab
> /dev/hdc              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,ro       0 0
> 
> I'm using Redhat5.1. If you are using Slackware '/mnt/cdrom' should be
> '/cdrom'.
> 
> > 3. Can i read MSDOS floppies and/or CD-ROMS? If so, how?
> Use following command to read MSDOS floppies
> mdir
> mcopy -t a:*.txt .
> mcopy a:* .

Or,

mount /mnt/floppy

or

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

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
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