Re: Flopy disk

["Kevin D. Colby" <kevin marcal com>]

At 08:16 PM 10/23/97 -0400, you wrote:
>>>>>> "cl" == Claudius Li <aprentic hops cs jhu edu> writes:
>
>cl> I already have RH 4.2 installed on one system. Now I am trying to install
>cl> it on another machine which does not have a cdrom drive. Somehow I lost my
>cl> install flopy so I'm trying to make a new one. Now here is the problem:
>cl> When I go into control panel and try to mount my floppy drive I get the
>cl> following error message:
>
>cl> mount /dev/fd0
>
>cl> returned the following error:
>
>cl> mount: wrong fs type, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
>cl> or too many mounted file systems
>
>cl> All I want to do is copy my boot image onto the disk
>cl> the fstype is listed as ext2
>cl> I don't think I'm using any options 
>cl> the disk checks out in scandisk under dos
>cl> and I only have 4 file systems mounted right now.
>
>Try mounting it as mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt assuming it already
>has a ext2 filesystem on the disk, otherwise if is a dos disk
>change the type to -t msdos.

If this floppy doesn't have an ext2 filesystem, simply 'mke2fs /dev/fd0'
before trying to mount it.  You may then make it a boot/root disk by
cp-ing the appropriate file over to it.  (a kernel if boot, stripped
down root filesystem if root)  Oh, and if a boot disk, also run lilo
with the '-r' ???check me here??? option specifying /dev/fd0 so that
lilo will tell the floppy's MBR to properly load the kernel on it.
(If you get an 'LI' when trying to boot the floppy and it has a kernel,
this is probably the problem.)

        - Kevin Colby
          kevin marcal com