Sorry, but I think I may not have been clear enough in my prior message.
Also, Lawson's reply raised another issue. So let me suggest this time a
more detailed strategy for checking to see what the problem is.
1. Just to cover all the bases, you are mounting the floppy disk after you
insert it, right? (With a command like "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt").
2. When you enter the rpm command, you are entering the full path to the
file, right? (With a command like "rpm -ivh /mnt/filename").
3. To check permissions on the floppy drive (Lawson's idea), you run the
command "ls -l /" (that's a lower-case L, not a 1), and look at the entries
next to /mnt -- see the man pages for chmod, chown, and chgrp for help in
interpreting the entry if you don't know how.
4. To check the filenames on the floppy drive, use the command "ls -l /mnt/"
and see if the filenames there are what you are expecting. (I'll be
surprised if they are, but there may be a floppy filesystem variant that I'm
unfamiliar with that lets these long names work.)
5. When you do the install, you are logged in as root, right?
At 10:31 PM 4/15/99 -0700, David Leaumont wrote:
>Hello Ray. Thanks for the reply. The file names were
>truncated. They only had the '.rpm' taken off of the
>name, though. I tried it with both the default file
>name and with the '.rpm' on the end and got the same
>result. There were three files posted and I
>downloaded all three. With each, i used
>#rpm -ivh name
>The three files are
>XFree86_3DFX-SVGA-3.3.3-2.i386.glibc.rpm
>XFree86_3DFX-rushlib-3.3.3-2.i386.glibc.rpm
>XFree86_3DFX-XF86Setup-3.3.3-2.i386.glibc.rpm
>
>I just noticed that the web site has each numbered
>segment (version designations) separated by a '.
>insteadof a '_'. I haven't tried it with the '.' but
>I will. With each file, i get 'error, cannot read
>file'. Should i install the XF86Setup file above with
>a command that I have not heard about? I apologize,
>but I am not familiar with the ls -1 of the mounted
>floppy. None of my documentation mentions it either.
>Thanks again and I appreciate any help you can
>provide.
>Best regards- Dave
>
>--- Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I suppose it could be, depending on what the
>> filename was. Floppies with
>> msdos filesystems only show the DOS 8.3 filenames
>> under Linux. If the driver
>> had a longer name when downloaded, you may be trying
>> to open it under the
>> wrong name. Could also be a mode problem if this is
>> an executable (rather
>> than, say, a file you are untar'ing).
>>
>> If that's not it, send the command you are executing
>> as well as the error it
>> returns, along with an ls -l of the mounted floppy.
>>
>> At 07:12 PM 4/15/99 -0700, David Leaumont wrote:
>> >Hello again everyone. I am getting an error
>> ("error:
>> >could not open file") when trying to install the
>> >Banshee driver update. Could thid be because I
>> >downloaded it on a Win95 based machine? The floppy
>> >was formatted under Win95. I am running a system
>> with
>> >RH5.2. Thanks in advance.
>> >Regards-Dave
>>
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