Hi John, Just a general thought again - try creating a small text file with an 8.3 format name (say test.txt) and copy that file to the floppy (make sure you close the text editor first). That way you'll know if the copy is possible at all. You could also try getting the text editor to save directly to the floppy. Dylan On Sunday 22 December 2002 22:22, John Lowell wrote:
On Sunday 22 December 2002 05:02 am, Andre Truter wrote:
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
Andre, Ole, Dylan, zentara, Patrick & Tom,
First just permit me to say how grateful I am to all of you for trying to be of help to me with this problem. I hope I haven't missed above anyone who's written. Thank you!
After reviewing the various approaches suggested to me, all of which have common themes, I settled on what I've set out below as an attempt at a solution. Truthfully, I think something out of the ordinary may be going on but here's what's happened with my latest attempt:
1. Formated the drive in a Windows 98 machine so there's a file system on the floppy.
2. Ran the following as root user:
linux:~ # mount /media/floppy linux:~ # cp /home/jlowell/Mail/inbox/cur/* /media/floppy cp: cannot create regular file '/media/floppy/1040271374.1288.Sb3R:2,S' Invalid argument
The same pattern is then reported for each of the e-mail files. So you'll know, the relevant portion of /etc/fstab reads: /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0. How do we account for the invalid argument output?
John Lowell
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