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- From: smg@oxphys.physiol (Steve Gough)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: getting mtools working (again) ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.153830.10336@oxphys.physioloxphys.physiol>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 15:38:30 GMT
- References: <1992Sep9.071926.6592@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <veit.716109291@du9ds3>
- Organization: Physiology Department, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
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- Originator: smg@oxphys.physiol
-
- In article <veit.716109291@du9ds3> veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de writes:
- > In <1992Sep9.071926.6592@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> paoletti@cps.msu.edu (David R. Paoletti) writes:
- >
- > >I've got 386BSD up and running, and installed the binaries
- > >using the loadfd command when I started. My problem is that
- > >now none of the mtools (mdir, mread, etc) will work. If I do
- > >something like mdir a: or mdir "a:" or mdir "a:*.*", it just
- > >aborts with the error:
- >
- > > init: open: No such file or directory
- >
- >This should get into the FAQ:
- >
- >A non-root user has no R/W access to the floppies. Set the
- >permissions to 666 for /dev/fd?[a-h]. This, however, introduces
- >all dirty tricks that undermine security, so a probably better
- >idea could be 644.
-
- I had the same problem after I installed 386bsd. It's not the permissions.
- The mtools in the binary distribution appear to be broken. mread works
- fine, but mdir/mwrite/mattrib etc. abort with the above error message.
-
- I grabbed the binaries for mtools from the file
- /386BSD/nova.cc.purdue.edu/mtools-2.0.5.tar.Z on src.doc.ic.ac.uk ftp
- server and these work fine.
-
- As mread works, you should be able get the new mtools loaded if you don't
- have internet access from the 386BSD computer.
-
- The nova.cc.purdue.edu directory is not in the ROADMAP, so this
- directory might not exist at all the 386BSD ftp sites, but presumably
- it *IS* available at nova.cc.purdue.edu!
-
- Of course, I might be wrong about the mtools in the binary distribution.
-
- Steve.
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