From: eoi@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Chenmin Zhang) Subject: Mount floppy problem Date: 6 Sep 1992 04:55:54 GMT
I just installed linux 0.97.1 version to my hard drive. Right now I
boot linux from a floppy initially, then run linux from hard drive.
I would like to install mtools on my hard drive. I have already got
the file from tsx-11.mit.edu site in the ????.tar.Z form. I used rawrite
to write the mtools.n.tar.Z to a new formatted, error free (no bad sectors)
3 1/2" disk. After I logged in as root and run
"mount -t msdos /dev/fd1 /mnt" (found in net news)
the system gave me:
floppy I/O error
dev 0201, sector 0
msdos bread failed
/dev/fd1 already mounted or /mnt busy
I know someone who posted news several days ago had the same problem. I have
tried using both form of floppy (using rawrite and not using rawrite).
I have also tried using /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1H1440, it failed. I know at
that time, I switched my 0.97 boot disk to mtools source disk without using
any "umount" command. I don't know if it makes any difference. My system
just had one floppy drive (a:) and hard drive is partitioned as one DOS
primary partiton and three linux partitions (root, usr, swap).
Thanks advance !
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from newcomer