From: pclark@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Peter Clark) Subject: Re: mounting DOS drives Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 00:14:24 GMT
In article <1993Jan20.170254.28366@donau.et.tudelft.nl> wolff@liberator.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff) writes:
>arne@mars.rmt.sub.org (Arne Marschall) writes:
>
>>95jrn@williams.edu (Jonathan R. Nitschke) writes:
>>: I installed the SLS 'a' series from floppies, but would like to get the other
>>: installation files from /dev/hda1, a 340M DOS filesystem.
>>: mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /dos
>>: is The Right Thing, the FAQ sez, but I get a wierd cryptic numbered error when
>>Did you create an empty directory "/dos" before ?
>
>And besides that, if you get "wierd cryptic numbered error"s you have an
>old mount. Get a newer one, one that understands the -t options.....
>
> Roger.
Actually, I got the same error while trying to mount /dev/sr0 (my Texel
CD-ROM) - just a unknown error # something, and I'm using 1/18 a1 and a2
SLS disks.... ?
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