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? -- One option to to forget about mounting the floppy and use mcopy to copy the file.
mcopy <filename> a:/ ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
