removeable disks

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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Hello,
Yes in fact it can, and you don't need the mdir command. You can
simply use ls. For starters, try this. Put a cdrom in the CD drive,
then type this:

mount /mnt/cdrom

Now you can do ls, cp, etc. to access the files on your cdrom drive.
Make sure to do:

umount /mnt/cdrom

when finished. You can do the same for /mnt/floppy for your floppy
drive, provided the disks are already formatted. Formatting under
Linux is another story. If you want to know how to do it, let me know
and I'll post another message.

Finally, consult the following man pages for all you ever wanted to
know about this:

mount (8), umount (8), fstab (5)
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Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net
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From: "Kyrath. (AKA Rob)" <kyrath at cox.net>
To: "Speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 9:47 PM
Subject: removeable disks


I'm finally starting to poke around my linux box and have been doing
a lot of reading, since I really had no basic unix knowledge to start
with.
I believe that I've got the mounting of my floppy and cd drives, but
I'm not able to access files on my cd.  In fact, I was only able to
see files on my floppy by using the "mdir" command.  Unfortunately,
not even that seems to work for the cd drive at all.
I thought the linux was able to read dos/windows formatted disks?
If anyone can direct me to specific information/reading material
regarding the use of disks and cds between a windoes and linux box, I
would greatly appreciate it.
I'm currently using slackware 9.1.
- -- Rob
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