From: rafal@utstat.uucp (Rafal Kustra (summer student)) Subject: Re: Mounting floppies & other problems Date: 2 Aug 1992 23:17:50 GMT
In article <EeT5LOW00WB3M3bTwY@andrew.cmu.edu> bt11+@andrew.cmu.edu (Benjamin Daniel Taylor) writes:
>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.
>
To mount a floppie it must contain a valid file system.
FS is made with mkfs. If you rawritten a tar file you can
access it with tar utillity; just do:
tar xzvf /dev/fd[0|1]
(Omit 'z' option if file has not been compressed ie its
extension is only tar not tar.Z , in most cases)
I don't know what above files are but if they don't mount
try tar.
>My past experience is that of a fairly clueless *nix user, so my
>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.
For stuff like that it is better to consult man pages on
your UNIX system. Also some books can be reccomended
(which ones - anyone?)
But I must say that I started Linuxing without *any*
knowledge of UNIX and little of C, and learned a lot
installing it.
>
>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.
Linux likes almost any card. I have ATI XL Wonder but as
far as I know there is now driver yet for it to work with
X11.
>
>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.
Yes. It's on tsx-11.mit.edu in binaries (editors?) dir
and goes by the name vile.
>
>For all of this, Thanks in Advance.
>
>Signing off for now,
>Your live(?), roving reporter at Crazy Maniacs University
>
>Ben D. Taylor
>
Rafal
>a.k.a. is yet again the mysterious Mr. Invisible
>
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