Oh, dear. Has your distro really set you up with a directory named
/mnt/floopy, or do you not know how to capture the output of commands to
include them in your letters? One way is to redirect the output into a
file with >, so:
ls -l /mnt >~/mntls
Then just include ~/mntls in your letter and you don't have to type that
stuff and confuse us with typos. :-).
or you can log the whole session with
script ~/try17
<commands>
exit
and include ~/try17 in your next letter.
Well, it doesn't look like you have mounted the floppy yet, so you are
not going to be able to read it. I guess you are having to shut down
linux and boot windows to send your mail? In that case, is the machine
you used to download these things the same as your linux machine? If
you have RedHat 5.2 you should be able to mount the win98 partition from
linux and not bother with the floppy. Leave that aside for now.
login as root
put the floppy in the drive.
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
cd /mnt/floppy
ls -l
rpm -ivh *
If it doesn't like /mnt/floppy, you can try again with /mnt/floopy, but
I would be willing to bet a nickle that was a typo. Oh, one thing.
Spaces are significant.
mount /dev/fd0/mnt is not at all the same thing as
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
In any case, with your setup, you don't want it on /mnt.
I hope you have just succeeded with the install, and that you will read
man mount and man rpm and man script to try and see why you did what you
did. :-)
Don't panic when you see an error. It is just the program apologising
that it couldn't do what you told it to, and trying to explain why, as
well as it knows how.
Lawson
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This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, David Leaumont wrote:
> First, thanks are in order to all of you who have
> replied and tried to help me with the limited info I
> have given. It is my own Linux-newness that is to
> blame. Here is a more detailed account of my most
> recent try to install the Banshee drivers.
>
> login as root
>
> #mount /dev/fd0/mnt
> mount: can't find/dev/fd0/mnt in /etc/mtab or
> /etc/fstab
> #mmount
> Usage:mmount -V drive:
> #mdir
>
> XFree8~1 RPM
> XFree86_3DFX-rushlib-3_3_3-2_i386_glibc.rpm
> XFree8~2 RPM XFree86_3DFX-SVGA-3_3_3-2_i386_glibc.rpm
> XFree8~3 RPM
> XFree86_3DFX-XF86Setup-3_3_3-2_i386_glibc.rpm
>
> #ls -l /mnt/
>
> drwxrwxr-x 2Root root 1024 Oct 9 1998 cdrom
> drwxrwxr-x 2Root root 1024 Feb6 1996 floopy
>
> #rpm -ivh
> /mnt/XFree86_3DFX-SVGA-3_3_3-2_i386_glibc.rpm
>
> error: cannot open file
> XFree86_3DFX-SVGA-3_3_3-2_i386_glibc.rpm
>
> #rpm -iVh
> /mnt/XFree86_3DFX-SVGA-3_3_3-2_i386_glibc.rpm
>
> rpm: only one major mode may be specified
>
> #shutdown -r now
>
> This was my latest attempt. Again, the three files I
> have are on a floppy that was made on a Win95 machine.
> My machine is an AMD-K6-2 400 w/a dual boot system
> running the Personal Ed of System Commander. Linux
> and Win98 are the OSes. The system is self-built with
> a Mitsumi floppy and Toshiba DVD, Banshee 16MB PCI
> video card and SBLive Value (I know this driver won't
> be available until the 4th quarter of this yr) If I
> need to give more info, please let me know. And thank
> you all for your help. You guys are very patient to
> deal with me. If you have any ideas for documentation
> I should buy, let me know. I have recently purchased
> SAMS 'Teach Linux in 24h.'
> Best regards- Dave
> ===
> David C. Leaumont
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