From: wdueber@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Bill Dueber) Subject: Simple help mounting a floppy needed Date: 27 May 1992 19:03:19 GMT
Hey folks. After an enormous amount of screwing around (makes me wonder if
I'm wise because I'm starting to know how much I don't know) I've got
Linux 0.96a onto my hard drive. The problem is I can't get anything else
off of floppy (say,oh, the m-tools) and I'm a bit stuck.
I tried rawriting the mtools-n.tar file to a high-density 1.44 M floppy,
and then tried to mount it with
mknod /dev/fda b 2 28 <-- Is this right for a 1.44M floppy in a:?
mount /dev/fda /floppya
And I continuously get a magic number error on the mount attempt. If I
do a mkfs to /dev/fda everything works fine; of course, my file is no
longer on the disk in that case, and I'm stuck with an empty floppy mounted
under /floppya.
Could someone explain (using small words :-) what it is that I'm doing wrong?
I thought that rawriting a tar file to a floppy was enough (saw something to
that effect in the newsgroup, I thought) but I'm obviously doing something
incorrectly. Help!
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