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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