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[russ loroville <bontemps AT m-net.arbornet.org>]

Your "ls" command is looking in the wrong place. If you mounted your
floppy in /mnt/floppy then point your ls to /mnt/floppy ie
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ls /mnt/floppy
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The same with the cdrom, if you mounted your cdrom on /mnt/cdrom try this:
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ls /mnt/cdrom
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On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Julio Borges wrote:

> Thanks for your time to look into my problem.
>
> I'm using Conectiva 9 (special edition that came with a magazine).
>
> I run mount and it shows no floppy nor cdrom.
>
> I put a floppy in the floppy drive and run mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0
> /mnt/floppy. The floppy light goes on and if I run mount again it shows the
> floppy in the list.
>
> I put a cdrom in the cdrom drive and run mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc
> /mnt/cdrom. The light goes on. Some msgs goes on screen and if I run mount
> again it shows the cdrom in the list.
>
> My problem is that I can not see the contents of the disks (floppy and
> cdrom). I try the following:
>
> ls -lo /dev/floppy - The light goes on again. and it shows the size of a
> blank floppy isntead of a written floppy.
>
> The samething happen with cdrom.
>
> I tryed to copy something from hd to floppy and could not do it. I used the
> following command:
>
> cd /
> cd /tmp
> ls -lo (it shows me a file named Julio is there)
> cp Julio /dev/fd0 - It gives the message: the file Julio is already there.
> Do you want to overwrite it?
>
> How como Julio is already there if I never copied it before? Even if I
> format the floppy it shows me the same message.
>
> Yes! Believe me. I managed to format the floppy. I used the command fdformat
> /dev/fd0H1440. I could even use the mkfs -t ext2 /dev/fd0.
>
> Thanks again.
> Julio Borges
> Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
>
> >From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
> >Reply-To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> >To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> >Subject: Re: [BL] Copy from hd to floppy
> >Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 06:42:57 +1300
> >
> >Julio Borges wrote:
> > >
> > > I run mount and saw the floppy is there, so is hd
> >
> >Please tell us the exact commands you used for mounting
> >and seeing.
> >
> > > but I can not read the contents of floppy
> >
> >You said above that you "saw the floppy is there".
> >I assumed that mean you could see the contents.
> >If not, what did you mean?
> >
> > > neither copy files to floppy.
> >
> >It sounds to me that your floppy is not correctly
> >mounted.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Steven
> >
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