You should have a look for a RPM called mtools. It does evertying for your
automatically unlike typing in
mount -t vfat /mnt/floppy or whatever
At 04:29 PM 8/7/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi,
>Make sure the directory /mnt/floppy exists
>then unless you have set it up differently
>you have to be root to mount it. Here is
>the command I use to mount windows floppies
>mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
>I actually have it in a x file called WinFloppy
>that reads as follows
>
>mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>echo "floppy is mounted to write as a win floppy system"
>echo " as /mnt/floppy"
>
>Also you might want to create a file on /mnt/floppy
>when a floppy is not mounted called "No Floppy is mounted" or some such
>thing so you will know if
>you have an empty floppy mounted or forgot
>to mount it! Be sure to unmount it before you
>take it out. I don't know if it causes as much trouble
>on Linux but my old unix system went loco if you forgot
>and it was a pain to fix.
> Linda Hanigan
>~
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Benoit Cordoba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 3:39 PM
>Subject: Install problems!
>
>
>Hi everyone.
>
>I am brand new to RH and Linux. I just did an install of RH 6.1 on a new
>Dell. I have problems with the sound card. I went to the mail server
>archives and got some answers. The Montego cards needs the new drivers from
>aureal. So I downloaded them using win98. I copied the file (a tar.zip
>file) on a floppy and tried to have it read by Linux. No go. I get an
>error. I finally found how to format a floppy in Linux thinking it would be
>read by Win 98 but no go.
>
>So how do I exchange files between Win and Linux on floppies??!!
>
>I don't have a network access and I am still trying to configure my ppp
>connection (modem busy! Any help there would be greatly appreciated).
>
>Also I changed the perms to the /dev/mixer (as root) but when I log back-in
>as root or another user the perms are gone! Hugh?! Can anyone explain
>that to me.
>
>Thanks for any and all help.
>
>Benoit Cordoba
>
>
>
>
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