On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:55:35PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have DOS (w2k) partitions on a separate hard drive and can > access them as /dosc, etc., thru Linux. I can no longer run w2k > on this machine. In order to get a 5M file back to a DOS > machine, I used Linux zip and got it down to 1.01M. But when I > try to copy it to a DOS diskette, I get the message that the new > file can't be created because of a read-only file system. I have > tried re-mounting the device as /a and made sure that the type > is vfat. The rest of the line in /etc/fstab is noauto,user 0 0. > I have tried everything I can find in several Linux books. Any > suggestions?
If you have the mtools package installed, you can just do a 'mcopy $file a:'. If that doesn't work, something is wrong with the disk. Of course, the disk should be DOS formatted. -- Hal Burgiss _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
