On Sunday 22 December 2002 05:02 am, Andre Truter wrote:
This command should get your files copied onto the floppy of the floppy is mounted.
This error is correct, as /dev/fd0 is not a deirectory, it is a device. When you mount the floppy, the kernel associate the device /dev/fd0 with the directory /media/floppy. When any operations are done on /media/floppy, the kernel will apply the operations on the device. You never have to copy to the device.
You have to mount it first.
No, you should not have to create a directory on the floppy.
The procedure to copy to ot from a floppy:
1) Place diskette in drive 2) mount the device: normally this command should do it: mount /media/floppy
3) copy to or from the mount directory (/media/floppy) like it is a normal directory.
4) unmount the device: umount /media/floppy 5) wait for the drive light to go off or stop flashing, then remove the diskette.
HTH
Everyone, Just to make sure I'd run the mount command properly I made a second go at it using linux:~ # mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy It made no difference, I still get the Invalid argument output. Is it hopeless, doctor? John Lowell