At Monday, 22 December 2003, "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
org> wrote:
>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) ...
>
>--
i deleted the mtab entry and was able to remount the device.
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