From: odonnell@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov (J. M. O'Donnell) Subject: Re: Problems With MTools Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1993 15:04:00 GMT
In article <1993Aug5.183657.27331@cdf.toronto.edu>, a010eido@cdf.toronto.edu (Eidoo Khalid) writes...
>Hello all Linuxers!!!! I installed the SLS 1.02 distribution of
>Linux on my 486 a couple of days ago. Unfortunatly mtools was not
>configured to work with my computer properly. My a drive is A
>5.25" 1.2M floppy, and my B drive is a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. I am not
>familiar with how to configure mtools. Whenever I try to read a
>Dos floppy, i get an error message like: cannot read a: does not support
>floppy with .... I would like to know if someone could tell me what to
>put in my mtools file, so it can read both my drives. thank-you.
swap the definitions of the A and B drives.
The definition file has A as the 3.5, and B as the 5.25".
John.