On Tuesday 23 September 2003 05:06 am, Walther The Writer wrote: > I didn't mount floppy. What I did was cp name_of_the_file.txt /dev/fd0 > sould I mount it first?
You can cp a file to /dev/fd0, and it does exactly that. It overlays anything already on the disk, which in your case would be the boot sector, FAT and other parts of the filesystem. Pretty cool, but not what you want. ;-) So at this point you need to re-format the diskette, and then either learn about mtools (recommended) or do something like this: $ mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy $ cp somefile /mnt/floppy $ umount /mnt/floppy Hope this helps. -- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ > Walther.. > > > >How did you mount the floppy (if at all)? > >How did you copy the file? > > > >Persoanlly, I usually use MTools for stuff like this: > > > > $ mcopy file.txt a: > > > > > >However, it'd be reasonable to do the normal "mount", "cp" and "umount" > >that you'd do with an ext2-formatted floppy. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
