save doc to floppy disk

athenerx · 06-30-2001, 12:14 AM

would anyone please tell me how can I save a document to floppy disk after I type it on staroffice?

please tell me how can I save to diskette a drive I download from the iternet.

jharris · 06-30-2001, 04:58 AM

To get to the floppy you first need to mount it. If you post what desktop / windowing manager you are using (KDE/Gnome/etc...) then I'm sure that someone can tell you the nice graphical utility to use. In the mean time try something like this from a terminal

Code:

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

this should mount your floppy under /mnt/floppy. You can now just save your documents to /mnt/floppy and they'll be written to the disk. Just remember to run

Code:

unmount /mnt/floppy

before you eject the disk!! Otherwise you might loose some data.

If for some reason this doesn't work post the error in this thread.

cheers!

Jamie...