From: Brendan B. Boerner (bboerner@novell.com)
Date: 06/02/92


From: bboerner@novell.com (Brendan B. Boerner)
Subject: Re: Can't mount rawritten disk
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1992 14:03:08 GMT

In article <1992May31.113906.16306@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> mjm@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Mike McBain) writes:
>I am attempting to transfer some linux files from DOS to floppy.
>I use rawrite to write the file (turkey.tar). When I then try
>to mount the floppy using the command mount /dev/at0 /mnt I get
>the following error message
>
> magic match failed
> mount: error 16

The floppy contains a tar image, not a filesystem image. Use

tar tvf /dev/at0 to read the archive and

tar xvf /dev/at0 to expand it onto you disk.

Brendan

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