Whoa, hmm, thats a tuffy, anyone else with some input?
>From what I remember, an installboot or a boot disk
I could always mount as ext2, sorry I don't have my
floppy anymore, I wish I could have it back to
do some experimenting.
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, Tim Walker mewed:
> vic,
> tried this, gave me the following error message:
>
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
> or too many mounted file systems.
>
> before i did the mount i entered "umount floppy" while in the /mnt dir.
>
> fs type should be ok, and there shouldn't be too many mounted file
> systems, so what about the other 2 options?
>
> suggestions?
>
> cheers,
>
> tim
>
> Vic wrote:
> >
> > I think you can access that kind of disc if
> > you mount it ext2, unless you have tried that already,
> >
> > mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> >
> > Should get you into the boot floppy's filesystem.
> > But I don't remember where you should
> > dump the patch file.
> >
> > On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, Tim Walker mewed:
> > > guys and gals,
> > > my problem is that my usb mouse was detected as a ps/2 mouse on
> > > installation, so i have no mouse in linux. downloaded the patch from
> > > mandrake, saved it as 'patch.pl' in a temp dir under win98. the
> > > instructions for patching say
> > >
> > > "save this file to your boot floppy making sure to keep the name
> > > "patch.pl". Then, during installation, boot from the disk as normal but
> > > type "linux patch" at boot prompt."
> > >
> > > but i cannot access the boot disk i made for installation through either
> > > win98 or linux. i made the boot disk by using 'rawwritewin' from the
> > > dosutils dir of the mandrake 7.0-2 cd, and selecting 'cdrom.img' as the
> > > image.
> > >
> > > in win98 it tells me the floppy isn't formatted. in linux when i attempt
> > > to 'cd /mnt/floppy' or cp to it, it gives me an input/output error.
> > >
> > > my linux /etc/fstab file is as follows:
> > > /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
> > > /dev/hda6 /mnt/DOS_hda6 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
> > > /dev/hda7 /mnt/DOS_hda7 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
> > > /dev/hda8 /mnt/DOS_hda8 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
> > > /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> > > /dev/hda9 swap swap defaults 0 0
> > > /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
> > > none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> > > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> > > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
> > >
> > > i have been able to access other floppies through /mnt/floppy, just not
> > > the boot disk.
> > >
> > > ideas?
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > >
> > > tim
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