I'm a little confused... You said it's not a DOS floppy, but it has a file
that was downloaded on a windows machine. If it is a DOS disk and you have
mtools installed, you can read a DOS disk w/out worrying about mounting it
by just typing...
mdir a:
or
mcopy a:*.tar .
Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: April Escamilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, May 24, 1999 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: Problem Mounting floppy
>> The floppy disk I am trying to mount has a tar file that was downloaded
on a
>> windows machine
>
>since windows only recognizes DOS formatted (FAT12) floppies, treat your
>floppy as a DOS formatted one for Linux. (you can use the 'm'tools (mdir,
>mcopy will be useful)
>
>> -- the system downloaded it as a winzip file. when I try to
>> mount this floppy now, I get this error msg
>
>It's not downloaded as a winzip file, the file is still a .tgz (gzipped
>tar file). The file manager app recognizes the extension as something
>winzip can deal with (winzip handles .tgz files almost transparently), so
>it displays what winzip told it to display to describe that file type.
>
>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too
>> many mounted filesystems
>
>You may not have fat support in your kernel.
>
>try mount -t fat -r /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
>if that doesn't work probably these won't either, but you can try:
>vfat or msdos in place of fat, above.
>
>> Also, if the file has the .tgz extension, won't the linux system
>> understand that? Do I have to format the disk in linux, and then do the
>> copy?
>
>yes, and no.
>
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