Lawrence Lucier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > reason I'm asking is because my boot floppy and install disks don't see= > m 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??= > ? :-) > > > > It's entirely possible -- you should be doing someting like > > > > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
> Howdy Will.......thanks for the reply. :-) Seems it's just the four 1.44 b= > ase install disks > that don't respond to either: > > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt > > or > > mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt The rescue or boot disk should have an msdos file system on it. There is a very handy utility called "fdmount" in the fdutils package. You can insert a floppy disk then use fdmount to mount it as a file system. fdmount will look for any type of file system that it can recognize on that disk. Here is the result of my putting a rescue floppy in fd0 and fdmount'ing it. $ fdmount fd0 fdmount (/dev/fd0): mounted msdos 1440K-disk (readonly) on /fd0 $ ls -l /fd0 total 1374 -rwxr-xr-x 1 bates bates 1102 Aug 1 16:08 debian.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 bates bates 565 Aug 1 16:08 f1.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 bates bates 717 Aug 1 16:08 f10.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 bates bates 418 Aug 1 16:08 f2.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 bates bates 779 Aug 1 16:08 f3.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 bates bates 993 Aug 1 16:08 f4.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 bates bates 926 Aug 1 16:08 f5.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 bates bates 155 Aug 1 16:08 f6.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 bates bates 155 Aug 1 16:08 f7.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 bates bates 155 Aug 1 16:08 f8.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 bates bates 1176 Aug 1 16:08 f9.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 bates bates 1404 Aug 1 16:08 install.sh -r-xr-xr-x 1 bates bates 4528 Nov 4 1996 ldlinux.sys -rwxr-xr-x 1 bates bates 634182 Aug 1 16:08 linux -rwxr-xr-x 1 bates bates 115 Aug 1 16:08 rdev.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 bates bates 886 Aug 1 16:08 readme.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 bates bates 690183 Aug 1 16:08 root.bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 bates bates 43627 Aug 1 16:08 sys_map.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 bates bates 970 Aug 1 16:08 syslinux.cfg -rwxr-xr-x 1 bates bates 11938 Aug 1 16:08 syslinux.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 bates bates 7 Aug 1 16:08 type.txt $ fdumount # remember to do this before ejecting the disk fdumount (/dev/fd0): disk unmounted $ > VFS gives an error message stating "Can't find <valid> MSDOS/ext2 filesyste= > m on dev 02:00". > > BTW, would you happen to know what the 02:00 describes? I think they are called the major and minor device numbers. If you look at a long listing the directory /dev you will see numbers associated with each block device such as /dev: total 52 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 19456 Sep 24 23:35 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 1024 Aug 23 01:02 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27616 Sep 20 15:21 MAKEDEV ... lots and lots deleted brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 Aug 5 08:13 fd0 brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 84 Aug 5 08:13 fd0u1040 IIRC the 2 and 0 on the line for fd0 are magic numbers for the kernel to allow it to access the appropriate device driver. -- Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department 608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madison http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
