Subject: mtools Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1991 23:15:38 CST From: johnsonm@stolaf.edu (Michael K. Johnson)
Hello!
I am a new user of linux, and am trying to get up to speed. I began installing
linux on my system this afternoon after my new hard drive came, and have
now got things going so that my root device is my hard drive. I would
like to transfer some of the programs like gcc et. al. to my unix partition,
but I can't figure out how to use mtools. I have to read off floppies, due
to some craziness with my hard drives.
(Because my scsi device driver
for dos doesn't work with DOS4/5 large partitions, I cannot use both
Hard drives at once. I switch by going in and out of CMOS setup, telling
the computer that I do not have a hard drive if I wish to boot DOS and
use my scsi drive, and telling it about my IDE drive if I wish to boot
linux.)
This is working rather well, but I have no way to get the basic
binaries from the distribution onto my linux partition. I can't read a
floppy and so I can't get kermit to transfer by serial link. Catch-22,
or something like.
So, (the point of this long letter) I would appreciate any help with
mtools and any suggestions generally.
Thanks a lot!
michaelkjohnson
johnsonm@stolaf.edu
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