[wplug] floppy

[David Gerard Matthews]

Not sure what distro or desktop you use, or whether or not you have 
automount enabled.
Assuming you don't have automount enabled, and you're not afraid of a 
command line, try this:
mount /dev/fd0  /mnt
Note that you need to be root to do this.
Then you can do something like
cp myfile /mnt
and you're file will be copied on to the floppy.
Note that while you can format your floppies with a Linux filesystem 
(using mkfs), I generally don't.  Most floppies come already formatted 
with a DOS filesystem, which Linux can read and write.  You don't want 
to install Linux on a DOS formatted HD, but for floppies, it doesn't 
really matter.
HTH,
dgm

On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 08:02  PM, Amy D wrote:

> ok. found the floppy both in both interfaces (thank you!)
> Now to get it to let me do something.
> I couldn't paste a copied file into the floppy window, nor would vi 
> let me save there.
>
> I imagine the floppy has to be formatted for linux? But I can't find a 
> formating option anywhere.
>
> Is this Linux's way of saying "trash your evil windows system! We will 
> not let you take our data over there, loser!!"?
>
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