Mounting a Floppy Disk

01. Create a mount point – A place to load the data structure of the storage device (One time only)

[root@daddylinux~]# mkdir /media/floppy

02. See a mount point

[root@daddylinux~]# ls -l /media

03. Verify the device driver assigned to your Floppy Disk Driver

[root@daddylinux~]# ls -l /dev/fl*

eg - /dev/fd0 , /dev/fd1

04. Mounting the Floppy

[root@daddylinux~]# mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy

05. See the floppy drive data

[root@daddylinux~]# cd /media/floppy

[root@daddylinux~]# ls –l

06. Before you take out the floppy

[root@daddylinux~]# cd

[root@daddylinux~]# umount /dev/fd0