Accessing A: in Linux

Hello..

The A: covention is a DOS one, it is not used under linux. To access a storage device in Linux, to "mount" it on your system.. "mounting" is a procedure where you attach a device to a location on your local filesystem.. So Linux thinks that the device is actually a local directory on u'r file system.

At large, you should create an empty directory (for example /mnt/floppy), and then issue a "mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" command.. To use this format of command u need to be logged in as "root"..
(/dev is a directory that holds a list of devices on ur system, fd0 is "floppy drive 0", it's the first diskette drive attached to ur pc)

Basically, all linux distributions detect that u have a floppy so they do the job for u.. and add it to "fstab" (which is the File system table of the system).

Your question is quite ambiguous, so I don't understand for example how are u trying to mount the floppy (maybe clicking on the floppy icon in Gnome/KDE ?!).

Please post the contents of /etc/fstab , and try to describe ur problem in a clearer manner.

you can also use the mtools, witch allows you to use the floppy without mounting it.

you can use several dos commands like mdir, mcopy, mmove ... (just issue "man mtools" to find out witch commands are available in the see also section)

you can get mtools in http://mtools.linux.lu/mtools-3.9.7.tar.gz

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