Floppy Disks - How to mount a floppy disk on a Linux machine

Put the floppy disk in the machine's floppy drive.

  1. Open a terminal and type: mount /mnt/floppy.
To see what is on the floppy type:
  1. cd /mnt/floppy
  2. ls /mnt/floppy
To copy to the floppy, use the cp command.
  1. cp (give the path of the file location) /mnt/floppy
When you are done with the floppy, you need to change to a different directory and then umount the floppy.
  1. cd /etc
  2. umount /mnt/floppy
Suggestion: use the man pages to learn more about the mount command. At a terminal prompt type> man mount