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- From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
- Subject: Re: problems with mount
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.022731.10390@sol.UVic.CA>
- Keywords: mount
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA
- References: <9234923.25842@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 02:27:31 GMT
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- In article <9234923.25842@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> caw@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Chris Wright) writes:
- >Thanks for all the work that has gone into this...
- >I've got the minimal SLS installation (a1-4), and all seems find,
- >whoops, fine, except for two things:
- >mounting a floppy and adding a new user.
- >I've read both the linux and SLS faq's so I hope that this isn't a
- >waste ot bandwidth.
- >
- >whether I use menu, or mount, to mount a floppy, I get
- >"/dev/fd? mounted, or ?? busy". This is as root.
- >
- >and using menus adduser, or just using adduser from the
- >console fails, as it can't find the command.
- >
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- adduser is dead
-
- use useradd
-
- >Thanks again for the patience...we non gurus appreciate it.
- >(Oh, and I've checked in the unix.faq about the mount thing :0)
- >
- >cheers
- >
- >chris
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