Re: formatted floppy type??
On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Lawrence Lucier wrote:
> Is there any way of determining which kind of filesystem a floppy has been formatted with? The
> reason I'm asking is because my boot floppy and install disks don't seem to respond to either
> ext2 or dos when I try to mount them.
>
> Or maybe because I'm a newbie at linux I am issuing the wrong command??? :-)
The boot disk may be a raw kernel image. No filesystem, just the kernel.
If it's a lilo disk made during installation, it's probably msdos (mount
-t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt). The install disk for the base system are
probably a multi volume tar archive. See the tar man page about these.
> "It's A Magical World, Hobbes, Ol' Buddy... ...Let's Go Exploring !"
Like the sig.
Brandon
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