topic Re: Xferring DOS files to LINUX w/o networking in Operating System - Linux

Xferring DOS files to LINUX w/o networking

Gerald_2 — Thu, 03 Jan 2002 05:20:33 GMT

Hi,

I don't have networking in place between my MS/DOS computers and
my LINUX computer since the driver for my LINUX computer is
a .zip file copied on a floppy
disk from my MS/DOS computer.
My question is w/o networking
what is the next best way to get the driver onto my LINUX machine?

Thanks,

gerald

Re: Xferring DOS files to LINUX w/o networking

Alexander M. Ermes — Thu, 03 Jan 2002 06:21:04 GMT

Hi there.
Tyr a null modem cable and setup your DOS machine as terminal to the serial interface on your linux system.
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

Re: Xferring DOS files to LINUX w/o networking

Marcin Golembski_1 — Thu, 03 Jan 2002 09:57:47 GMT

If you have your .zip fileon a DOS formatted floppy you can simply mount that floppy on your Linux PC:

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
or
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy

where /dev/fd0 is the floppy disk drive device file and /floppy is a directory through which you want to access the files on the floppy (create it, if it's not there; some Linux distributions have /mnt/floppy already created for this purpose but it is really a directory of your choice). When the floppy is mounted you can access the files on it just like any other file in Linux. Copy the file to an empty directory, cd to that directory, and unzip the file:

unzip yourfile.zip

HTH,
Marcin

Re: Xferring DOS files to LINUX w/o networking

Mark Fenton — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 02:44:30 GMT

Sneaker net is definately the way to go here.

Re: Xferring DOS files to LINUX w/o networking

Felix J. Liu — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 15:36:30 GMT

slide the floppy disk into the drive on the Linux machine, login, (as root?), go to the proper directory, type

mcopy a:my_file.zip .

and you are done.

Good Luck!