Using removable disks --------------------- The machines all have floppy drives, and most have a CDROM and a ZIP drive, too. The Graphical Way ----------------- Some of the desktop managers or window managers have point-and-click interface to files. If not, you can always run "gmc" to get a set of icons. Double-clicking on the icon will open the device and allow you to drag and drop files, in the same manner as MS Windows. *** You must unmount the disk before ejecting it. With gmc, a right-mouse click on the icon has the "unmount" option. The Elite Coders Way -------------------- At your shell prompt, type one of the following: mount /floppy mount /cdrom mount /zip The mount command will auto-detect the filesystem type, so you can mount disks formatted either by unix (ext2 filesystem) or by MSDOS (fat, vfat filesystems). When you are done mucking about with the files, make sure none of your processes hold a file open on the device, and that none of your shells current directory is on the device. Then unmount using "umount /floppy", etc.