[NTLUG:Discuss] floppy questions

[Kevin E. Ivey]

Stephen Davidson <gorky at freenet.carleton.ca> wrote:

>If worse comes to worse, I think my Win98 system still works.  And I may 
>be able to resurrect a Linux laptop system with a floppy drive (I think 
>a fan just came loose when the screen hinge broke, will be replacing it 
>fairly quickly after Christmas).
>
>Regards,
>Steve
>
>On 12/09/2010 11:38 AM, Fred James wrote:
>> Jay Urish wrote:
>>> Should be fat16
>>>
>>> On 12/9/2010 11:24 AM, Fred James wrote:
>>>> I have some 3.5 floppy disk that were made on a Win98SE system, that
>>>> I should like to mount and read on a Linux box. But so far I have not
>>>> been able to get the filesystem type correct ... any clues would be
>>>> appreciated. Thanks
>>>> Regards
>>>> Fred James
>> Attempting to specify 'fat', 'fat16', or 'fat32' results in the message:
>> "mount: maybe you meant 'vfat'?"
>> Specifying 'vfat' results in the message "mount: /dev/fd0: can't read
>> superblock"
>> Does that mean it is hopeless? Is there some other way to get the data
>> off these disk?
>> Regards
>> Fred James
>>
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