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This isn't that clear. Is Win98 and Linux on the same box and you just need to know how to transfer them? Of are they seperate machine and the file you have downloaded is too big to fit on a floppy?
I downloaded the file onto my Win 98 Desktop and copied it to a floppy. I now want to use it to update my Linux laptop as the video settings don't let me run X. After mounting the floppy with mount /mnt/floppy I get the message that the OS is wrong.
Originally posted by trickykid It might be a dos formatted floppy as well.
You might have to mount it like this:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
Wouldn't that just mount it as a fat partition but ignore long file names? Or am I missing something about the relation between msdos filesystems and vfat file systems?
Is there a difference between the file systems? Can Linux read a DOS disk? Once mounted what is the command to copy files from the disk to my /temp dir? I know cp is copy but what is the Floppy (i.e. under dos it's A?
Real Newbie but my books don't mention anything about accessing Floppies.
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