[pocket-linux] Re: Copy Pocket Linux disks to floppy

[Dave Henderson]

James,
 
     The reason you can not list the contents of the floppy that you put the ch3-rootdisk.image.gz on is because it is compressed with the gzip binary.  This is like ZIP files in the Windows world.  Second, dd command is like an image "burning" utility.  It creates something like an ISO for CDRoms, but for floppies instead.  You couldn't browse the contents of an ISO without special software.  Hope this answered your question.
 
- Dave Henderson
 
PS.
    Dave Horton.... Looks like your Pocket Linux has gained some fans.  Many more than when it started :).
 


James Maki <jwmaki at att.net> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: QU CHEN
>
> > syntax as I have not been able to get it to work. I always end up with
> > non-readable floppy disk and "frozen" floppy in /mnt that will
> not >umount.
>
> I am also a new guy. But I am interested in knowing what do you mean by
> "frozen"? what commands you have used to mount or umount?
>
> QU Chen

I copied the disk with

dd if=ch3-rootdisk.image.gz of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k

When I try to mount /dev/fd0 the disk, I get an error

mount: you must specify the filesystem type.

BUT, the disk does work! I had made a mistake compiling the kernel w/out RAM
disk support to confuse the issue. So, while I am past the problems, why can
I not list the directory of this copied disk? I am sure it is a Newbie
error.

Thanks,

Jim


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