yet another daft floppy problem
 

Hi, thanks for looking,

just to metion first off, ive read the threads on floppy's here, search, and also on google, but nothing was quite-right/complete.

GOAL: download winrar.exe from net onto linuxbox, copy to disk, put disk in winbox, and install.

irst, i download the file, no problem, and to copy is cp, no problem...

from what ive read, to copy a file to a disk, first i have to mount it yes? ok, well i believe mandrake mounts it automatically, as i see a /mnt/floppy directory .... then i do my copy command, and inorder to get it to write to disk, i have to unmount (umount) it, yes? ok so, here are the steps ive tried;

1: format disk in windows, 1.44MB FAT --> works ok
2: cp winrar.exe /mnt/floppy --> works ok
3: umount /mnt/floppy --> returns; 'umount: /mnt/floppy: not mounted'
4: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy --> returns; 'mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device'
5: check /etc/fstab;

line1: /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
line2: /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
line3: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,noauto,exec 0 0
line4: none /proc proc defaults 0 0
line5: /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

and thats all i could gather from all the other threads, if you need more info, ill be happy to try and help, but again, i simply want to download winrar.exe from net onto linuxbox, copy to disk, put disk in winbox, and install.

thanks for any help, tips, anything,
Allan

Are you sure that the floppy is actually mounted when you do the copy? It appears that you are just copying the file to the mount point. Do you see the mount point listed in the df output?

what is df output? ... well since i try to unmount, and it says its not mounted, my guess is thats your right, its not mounted ... so what can i do? when i try the mount command, step 4, i get that error ... i searched google for answers to that, but i didnt understand, either because they had nothing to do with my problem, or im just a daft n00bie, as the thread name suggests ;) ... please let me know ... thanks, Al

darn....wrong place .delete.delete.

huh?

Yeah, I put it in the thread where you mentioned it to me.