On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, you wrote:
>i have downloaded the file that you sent to me. i have spent a lot of time on the
>net trying to find the answer to my problems. can you tell me how to format a floppy
>under linux and then how to copy that file from a:\ to c:\?
>
>Leland Albro
>Network Administrator
>Troy ISD
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No sweat.
You want to format the the floppy in Win95/98 (same crap) machine and put the
file on it. Next, put the floppy into Linux machine and issue the command:
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 'mount-point-directory' (usually i do mount -t vfat
/dev/fd0 /floppy). If you didn't configure you kernel then msdos, vfat file
systems support is in the kernel by default so you won't have problems.
If you do then you will error: "vfat file system is not supported".
It means you have to configure your kernel (Report this to the inpiron list and
and you'll get a lot of help. A lot of replies at least).
Then type "df -k" and you'll see your floppy was mounted and you can work with
the its files the same way you do in other file systems. You even can run rpm
directly from the floppy if you're installing some *.rpm file. Regards
Sergey Pak
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