[Eug-lug] mounting old Mac floppy

[horst]

Both worked: direct mount, and via image. The bits on the floppy hadn't 
flip-flopped yet :-)

Still, revisiting the loop device for mount was a good exercise.

Thanks Bob, for offering plan B .................. Horst

> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 01:55:39 -0800
> From: Bob Miller <kbob at jogger-egg.com>
> 
> horst wrote:
>
>> I try to extract some files from a Mac floppy that's about 7 years old.
>
> The filesystem type should be hfs.
>
> I'd copy the floppy contents to a disk file and mount the disk file
> because old floppies get read errors easily.
>
> 	# cp /dev/fd0 /tmp/fd0.img
> 	# mount -o ro,loop -t hfs /tmp/fd0.img /mnt/floppy
> 	# ls /mnt/floppy
>
> -- 
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