From: bt11+@andrew.cmu.edu (Benjamin Daniel Taylor) Subject: Mounting floppies & other problems Date: 2 Aug 1992 13:38:34 GMT
I have recently begun installing Linux 0.96c. Unfortunately, I've
gotten myself caught in the chicken-or-eggs dilemma of not having
mtools or kermit so I could bring basic utilities to my HD, including
mtools and kermit. Fortunately, I believe I've got a solution in the
files comp1.1, comp2.1, & comp3.1 which I've downloaded and rawritten,
assuming they are linux disk images. Unfortunately, I can't mount my
floppy drive so I can access them.
My past experience is that of a fairly clueless *nix user, so my
problem is very possibly due to never having used the mount command
before. What I wrote was:
#mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
The first time I try this, the floppy drive whirrs, and I'm told Linux
has found a 1.2 M disk in the drive (comp1.1). Then, which is the
same for all latter attempts, I'm told the magic match is bad (or
something), and that either /mnt is busy or /dev/fd0 is already
mounted. /dev/fd0 couldn't be mounted, as best as I can tell, and I
can't imagine who /mnt is busy. Needless to say, I need to be able to
mount the floppy drive, but I don't know how.
I apologize if this is a bit long or trivial. I'd read the FAQ at
least three times, but nowhere did I see anything about mounting
floppies (or at least to the depth that I need.
BTW, I've been considering getting X11. I figured I'd need more than
the 4M of RAM I have for it to work, so I set up a 2M swap partition.
Is this enough, or can I get decent performance at all with 4M at 33
mhz? Did I hear right that someone had written an ATI driver for X11?
Would that mean that my ATI Wonder will work? So far Linux seems to
like it.
One last question: has anyone ported vi? I perfer gnu-emacs for most
text editing, but IMHO vi is just fine for quick-n-dirty editing jobs.
For all of this, Thanks in Advance.
Signing off for now,
Your live(?), roving reporter at Crazy Maniacs University
Ben D. Taylor
a.k.a. is yet again the mysterious Mr. Invisible
"Hello. My name is Oedipus. You are my father. Prepare to die."