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["Julio Borges" <jb_linux21 AT hotmail.com>]

Thanks a lot. It cost me a lot to understand how it works. I already tryed 
and worked fine.
Julio Borges
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil



> From: russ loroville <bontemps AT m-net.arbornet.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 17:51:19 -0500 (EST)
>
> 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
> ---------------------
> ls /mnt/floppy
> --------------------
> The same with the cdrom, if you mounted your cdrom on /mnt/cdrom try this:
> -------------------
> ls /mnt/cdrom
> ------------------
>
> 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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