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- Path: sparky!uunet!news.claremont.edu!fenris!jwinstea
- From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
- Subject: Re: mount & head problems
- Message-ID: <1992Aug24.020241.8876@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- Keywords: mount, msdos, root disk
- Sender: news@muddcs.claremont.edu (The News System)
- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- References: <675@svcs1.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 02:02:41 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- In article <675@svcs1.UUCP> slix@svcs1.UUCP (Bill Miller) writes:
- >Hi Linuxers,
- >I've noticed two problems so far with the .97 pl1 root disk.
-
- Uh, do you mean 0.97, or 0.97.1? There are no patch levels for the
- root disk.
-
- >First, the mount -t msdos command doesn't seem to work. I've tried to
- >mount -t /dev/fd1H1440 /mnt as others have suggested (using fd1, or b:
- >drive which is a 1.44 3.5" drive) and I always get "mnt busy" errors.
-
- The correct syntax is 'mount -t msdos /dev/fd1 /mnt' - it may not work
- with the mount from 0.97, but it _will_ work with the one from the
- 0.97.1 root disk.
-
- >Second, when I pipe to head I get a "Broken pipe" message. I tried:
- >
- > ls -al | head -20
- >
- > it displayed the first 20 lines, and then gave the Broken pipe message.
-
- This is because head just does an exit after reading whatever it's
- told to - thus breaking the pipe (because it doesn't try and read
- anymore). I don't know if that's the proper behavior or not, but
- that's how it works. Any suggestions from the peanut gallery?
- --
- + Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
- | Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- | jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
- + or jwinstea@fenris.Claremont.EDU
-