Well, I am new at this myself, but I don't think you can mount it - it's not
a filesystem. Perhaps the dd (device-to-device copy) command will work -
can someone advise on how to do this?
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: trouble mounting native linux floppies.
>Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 23:08:12 -0700
>
>Hi,
> Yah, I've catted a kernel image to a floppy, now I need to mount it so I
>can copy it back.
>Dave.
>
>
>On Mon, 24 May 1999 08:42:31 PDT "Robert C. Cipriani"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Are you certain you're not trying to mount a floppy with a raw kernel
> > image?
> > Perhaps you can try formatting a floppy as ext2 (I believe the
> > format
> > command will low-level format the disk and create the filesystem)
> > and then
> > mount it. What distro are you running, and what kernal version?
> >
> > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > The subjectline says it, dos formatted floppies work fine,
> > but give me a
> > >linux floppy, such as a bootdisk and i get the message wrong fs
> > type,
> > >etc. etc.
> > > I'm using mount -t
> > > then for type, ext2, minix, I've tried msdos, fat, and
> > vfat,
> > > then /dev/fd0 /floppy
> > > and it still gives me that error.
> > > Any suggestions?
> > >Thanks.
> > >Dave.
> >
> >
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