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 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
