mount floppy disk image as drive?

[wilson83]

This probably is something simple, and may have already been addressed on here.

I have a 1.4MB floppy disk image file that I would like to mount as a drive.

The file is a *.img file.

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I tried

losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/file.img

it said

dev/loop0: No such file or directory

[RupertPupkin]

mount -o loop /path/to/file.img /some/mount/point

[wilson83]

Originally Posted by RupertPupkin

mount -o loop /path/to/file.img /some/mount/point

can I have an example of /some/mount/point, I tried /mnt but it didnt work

[stoat]

su
mkdir /mnt/temp
mount -o loop /path/to/file.img /mnt/temp

Then navigate your file manager to /mnt/temp to do whatever it is you need to do.

[wilson83]

question, is there a directory named /mnt in the original install? and what should be in it?

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BTW it worked this time, thanks.

[marriedto51]

There's probably still a /mnt by default, but it will usually be empty.

Historically, this is the place where mountpoints (directories) were created by the sys admin for things like drives with removable media or network shares, but Fedora now uses /media for local USB drives and the like.