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Re: mount a floppy during install?



On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 10:21:28PM -0700, Stephen Turner wrote:
> hey i noticed theres a enable console thing in the installation, whats the
> command to mount the floppy? i tried the typical mount comman functions i
> knew of, mount -a /dev/fd0 /mydirectory and that didnt seem to work, ive
> got the linux driver to my pcmcia card on this floppy, hopefully that will
> solve my network install issues if i can get that command right :)

You probably don't have an /etc/fstab yet, which is how mount knows how
to fill in the missing information.

Assuming the floppy is in ext2 format, try

mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy

If that's the wrong format, look for the right one and use it in place
of ext2 in the above command (man mount).

- Chris


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