At Monday, 22 December 2003, Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote:
>i am interested in moving a tar ball from a windows 2000 machine >to my non-networked linux machine ... kernel 2.2.20. the floppy is >listed in fstab as: > >/dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0 > >at the shell prompt, mount displays: > >/dev/fd0 on /floppy type msdos (rw) > >looks good, right? > >i copied the g-zipped tarball onto the floppy at the windows machine. >i list the contents at the shell prompt when i put the floppy into >the linux machine and a whole lot of attempts to access beyond the >end of the device errors are reported. > >is something missing from the kernel to support the windows ftype? > hmm ... i deleted the mount entry from /etc/mtab and mounted the device again. looks like it works this time. umount -f ... would not unmount the device however. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]