> When I use the command to mount floppy: mount /dev/fd0/mnt........
> I get the msg from bash : cant find /dev/fd0/mnt in /etc/mtab or
> /etc/fstab
yes - /dev/fd0/mnt does not exist.
You need mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
^ this is important.
> Also, I am running two hard disks on my system one of which has Win95 os
> and the second drive has Debian installed. Is there a way in which I can
> read and work with the Win95 filesystem in Debian. I know there are HOWTO's
> but when I type
zless is part of the gzip package:
This is in base: dists/stable/main/binary-i386/base/
(the exact name depends on whether you use stable or unstable - gzip
should tab-complete OK).
> I would really like to know whats going on. I installed Debian 2.0 from the
> net and the basic installation seems to work ok. But I wanted to read the
> manuals to learn more and discovered I needed the "man"packages which I
> have now downloaded. But I cant seem to install anything because I cant
> mount the floppy. Is there a way to copy the files form WIN95 on the first
> disk where they were saved from the net.?
Should do - newer kernels support fat32. I don't know the flag for it
though.
> It would appear I cant use mcopy either Command not found.
You need the mtools package. This is in otherosfs
HTH,
Matthew
--
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo
Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society
Selwyn College Computer Support
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/
http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/
http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
