On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 2:45 PM, mark m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Yes, really. I've got hundreds of the damn things here at home, and I want to go through them and get rid of them all.
But... to do that I want to read them. I have both a 5.25" and a 3.5" drive, both are plugged in, but in the BIOS, all I see is the 3.5". Fine, I figure I'll take care of those.
Nope. I see /dev/fd0 once I've booted up, but neither konqueror nor mount nor fdisk works - the latter telling me that /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device. After some googling, I tried modprobe floppy, which installed it, but still no joy.
Anyone have a clue?
What file system is on them? Or did you do something like raw tar writes to them? If it is typical dos/window FAT, try the programs from the mtools package. mdir, mcopy, etc. I hate to fight with stuff like that so I'd probably use a windows box connected to a samba share to move things over.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com