Re: Newbie floppy disk access question
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:20:42AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: I am trying to load a tar file driver from floppy disk. There is a file floppy in my root directory. This is empty. How do I find the file on my floppy disk? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] You need to mount the floppy, this is easy to do. 1 Make sure you NOT in the /floppy directory 2) Put the disk in the drive. 3) type mount /floppy Your floppy should now be mounted, cd to /floppy and it will now show the contents of your disk, don't forget to unount the floppy when your done, this is easy too. 1) Make sure your not in /floppy 2) type umount /floppy ^ not a typo there is no only one n Cheers Joel -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)
Newbie floppy disk access question
I am trying to load a tar file driver from floppy disk. There is a file floppy in my root directory. This is empty. How do I find the file on my floppy disk? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: Newbie floppy disk access question
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:20:42AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: I am trying to load a tar file driver from floppy disk. There is a file floppy in my root directory. This is empty. How do I find the file on my floppy disk? This is not a floppy file. It is an empty directory, mostly used to mount your floppy disk to. And that's what you have to do before you can access your floppy. $ mount -t fs /dev/fd0 /floppy where fs is the filesystem present on your floppy-disk. MfG/Regards, Willi -- ...is a registered (#210445) user of:Debian 2.2r3 GNU/Linux icq# 49564994###AIM: wdyck###GnuPG-Key: 1024D/8BFCA69B Fingerprint: DAD2 E564 B725 E6A3 5A0F 1497 4411 F30F 8BFC A69B pgp4JOdbOpKnc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Newbie floppy disk access question
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:20:42AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: I am trying to load a tar file driver from floppy disk. There is a file floppy in my root directory. This is empty. How do I find the file on my floppy disk? You need to mount the floppy. /floppy is an empty directory (not a file) which is provided for use as a mount point. If it is a DOS-formatted floppy (typical for transferring a file from a Windows machine), type 'mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy'. Then you will see the contents in /floppy. See 'man mount' for more options.
Re: Newbie floppy disk access question
ยป Abner Gershon disse isso e eu digo aquilo: I am trying to load a tar file driver from floppy disk. There is a file floppy in my root directory. This is empty. How do I find the file on my floppy disk? It's not a file. It's a directory you should mount the floppy to: mount /floppy Then you'll be able to access the contents of the disk. When you're finished using it, do: umount /floppy It will finish the logical connection between your system and the floppy. -- []'s, francisco m neto (a.k.a Ayanami-san) ICQ # 78493934 Toke au kokoro ga, watashi o kowasu. -- Ayanami Rei
