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 ----- Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7877/home.html PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
