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[yatsenng@xxxxxxxxxx (Yatsen Ng)]

> Did you use 'cp /boot/vmlinuz /dev/fd0' or something simulair as root?

Yes
 
> If you did this, you destroyed your filesystem on the floppy. There is
> no way to mount it...

I'm surprised to hear that - I didn't know about this. However, it sure
explains a lot! Why does this distroy the filesystem? I thought this was the
way it should be done.
    
> If you feel lucky (maybe, I never tried this...) you can copy the file
> with 'cp /dev/fd0 vmlinuz'.
> 
> In the future, use 'mcopy' to copy a file to a floppy.
> You can do this as a normal user.

Now I'm confused. Someone mentioned before that mcopy is only used to copy
files off a DOS formatted device (in this case a floppy). 
  
> Good luck,
> Cees.

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Yatsen Ng
Den Haag, The netherlands
yatsenng@xxxxxxxxxx

It said "Needs Windows 95 or better". So I installed Linux...

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