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Subject: Re: Floppy Drive From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 13:36:15 -0900 Matthew Pigott wrote: > > Hi again > > I've typed in your command and Linux accepts it and the floppy fires up. > > However when I type in "mcopy a:XFree86-3DLabs-3_3_3_1-1_i386.rpm ." I get > this reply > > Can't open /dev/fd0 Device or resource busy > Cannot initialize 'A:' > > Can you help agian please. You cannot use the m command (mcopy etc) on a MOUNTED linux floppy. m commands are used ONLY on msdos formatted floppies, and the floppy must be unmounted. The m commands are a shortcut for msdos disks. The file designators for linux are different too, of course. There is no a: drive in linux. The designator for the drive is whatever you mounted it as, for instance /mnt/floppy. If you downloaded your Xfree file onto a msdos machine, and saved the stuff to an msdos floppy, then your command above is CORRECT, just do it on an unmounted floppy. If the file was copied on a linux box to a linux floppy, then you can mount it, then copy it: mount /mnt/floppy cp /mnt/floppy/XFree86-3DLabs-3_3_3-1_i386.rpm There are also ways to mount an msdos floppy and use it, but then that excludes the m-commands. The name of your XFree file sure looks weird. This must be msdos filename corruption. ===\ Subject: Re: Floppy Drive From: Redhat listerv subscriber <redhat@psu.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:40:21 -0500 (EST) mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy although an easier way to do it if you installed mtools would be to type: mcopy a:\<filename.ext> ~ you may want to use mdir a: to see what the file is called and show you diskette. goto to man mtools to find out more. Hope this helps, Matthew A. Reklau On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Matthew Pigott wrote: > Hi > > I'm new to Linux and require some basic help. > > Can anyone tell me how to mount a floppy drive in Linux 5.2 so I can install my Graphics Card rpm which I downloaded from Windows 95 please. > > Thank You very much. >