Re: Trying to access msdos in debian 2.1
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> Hi everybody,
> I am trying to install Precision Insight's NeoMagic X Server so
> that I can get my IBM Thinkpad 390E up and running with X Windows. At
> this point in time, I do not have internet access on this laptop. On
> another computer (Win98), I downloaded the x server onto a floppy with a
> msdos filesystem. Then, I inserted the floppy into my Thinkpad and
> attempted to mount the floppy by typing:
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> I then got a message saying that the kernal in Slink does not support the
> MSDOS filesystem. I also tried saying it was an ext2 filesystem just to
> see if it would work (and it didn't). How can I get this file copied off
> of my floppy to my /var/tmp directory?
You could try a vfat file system instead, like this:
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
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Phil Brutsche pbrutsch@creighton.edu
"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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