On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 at 20:17 GMT, Debian User penned: > At Monday, 22 December 2003, Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > com> wrote: > >>i am interested in moving a tar ball from a windows 2000 machine to my >>non-networked linux machine ... kernel 2.2.20. the floppy is listed in >>fstab as: >> >>/dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0 >> >>at the shell prompt, mount displays: >> >>/dev/fd0 on /floppy type msdos (rw) >> >>looks good, right? >> >>i copied the g-zipped tarball onto the floppy at the windows machine. >>i list the contents at the shell prompt when i put the floppy into the >>linux machine and a whole lot of attempts to access beyond the end of >>the device errors are reported. >> >>is something missing from the kernel to support the windows ftype? >> > hmm ... i deleted the mount entry from /etc/mtab and mounted the > device again. looks like it works this time. umount -f ... would not > unmount the device however.
If the floppy is fat-formatted, a workaround might be to use the mtools (mdir and friends) ... -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
