From: vladimir@intrepid.com (Vladimir Vukicevic) Subject: Re: WHY BOTHER? Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 03:05:32 GMT
In article <734336477.F00013@remote.halcyon.com> Ray.Messier@f52.n203.z1.fidonet.org (Ray Messier) writes:
> Well, I certainly have ruffled some feathers. Alright, I walked into
>
>that punch asking for it. I do have the most recent SLS version, and
>when
>I run the *simple* install utility, it tells me to insert a2 into the
>drive, when I do this the drive light does not come on and it continues
>to
>ask me to insert disk a2. I'm sure this would frustrate even the most
>hardened Linux hackers. And I am faced with this whenever I try to read
>a
>floppy
>
> mount /dev/fd(0,1 or a,b) /mnt
>
>Linux replies: unknown error 2640 This happens if I try to mount a
>DOS
>file system too. Following the command exactly as it appears in the
>documentation
>
>(DOS) BEGGINNER'S GUIDE TO LINUX v0.95a
^^^^^
>
>mount -t MSDOS /dev/fd0 /user or /mnt Linux replies: unknown error
>2640
>
>
>Also, as many have quite loudly told me "Just use the man utility!"
>Well, I do and it says file not found! So that solution is out.
>
>
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Note that you're reading a manual for 0.95, and (since you have the most
recent SLS) you're probably using 0.99p6. First of all, I don't think that
you need to insert disk a2, because, in starting to install SLS, you need
disk a1 & a2 rawritten. The kernel copies the contents of disk a1 into
a ram disk, and automatically mounts a2. Make sure that the disk you're
using for a2 doesn't have bad sectors; rawrite can't detect these. Take
another disk and try it. Also, to mount a msdos disk, you'd do
mount -t msdos /dev/fd[01ab] /wherever
note that msdos is in lowercase. The other vaild values are minix (default)
ext, and ext2.
The reason you can't use man is that you're using a minimal bootdisk, which
does not have man pages installed.
- Vladimir
- vladimir@intrepid.com
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