Subject: Re: How do I mount a small hard drive w/ MS-DOS file system?
To: Paul Apprich <psapp@terra.cnct.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/06/1998 23:14:15
What does 'disklabel wd1' report?
David/absolute
Things to regret not having after transferring 'beans' between two beanbags
#1 : A vacuum cleaner
#2 : A floor the same colour as the beans
#3 : More beans
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Paul Apprich wrote:
>
> I got the HOWTO on net-booting a VS3100-m76. However, I am having
> a B---- of a time getting the i386 base files onto what will be the
> bootserver, a 386sx 33 MHz box. After messing with five 1200KB floppies,
> catting and getting nothing but format violations upon gunzip, I need to
> mount a 20MB hard drive w/ MS-DOS to copy over the file(s). I tried
> "mount_msdos -m 777 /dev/wd1a /spare-hdd", but I get "device not
> configured. This is what made me shelve this project for over a year.
> WHat am I not doing?
>
> TIA
>
> Paul Apprich
>