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- From: eoi@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Chenmin Zhang)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Mount floppy problem
- Keywords: Mount problem
- Message-ID: <Bu54D6.BJt@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 04:55:54 GMT
- Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News)
- Organization: Purdue University
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- I just installed linux 0.97.1 version to my hard drive. Right now I
- boot linux from a floppy initially, then run linux from hard drive.
- I would like to install mtools on my hard drive. I have already got
- the file from tsx-11.mit.edu site in the ????.tar.Z form. I used rawrite
- to write the mtools.n.tar.Z to a new formatted, error free (no bad sectors)
- 3 1/2" disk. After I logged in as root and run
- "mount -t msdos /dev/fd1 /mnt" (found in net news)
- the system gave me:
- floppy I/O error
- dev 0201, sector 0
- msdos bread failed
- /dev/fd1 already mounted or /mnt busy
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- I know someone who posted news several days ago had the same problem. I have
- tried using both form of floppy (using rawrite and not using rawrite).
- I have also tried using /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1H1440, it failed. I know at
- that time, I switched my 0.97 boot disk to mtools source disk without using
- any "umount" command. I don't know if it makes any difference. My system
- just had one floppy drive (a:) and hard drive is partitioned as one DOS
- primary partiton and three linux partitions (root, usr, swap).
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- Thanks advance !
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- from newcomer
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