Thanks, Bill for answering the questions. (It's my first time posting on the net.) One thing you mentioned is confusing. You made reference to using /dev/fd1 as the proper way to address the B: drive. When I used that, it didn't even look at the B: ...

linux-activists - Bill Miller - Aug 24 1992 - 14:21

Hi Linuxers, I've noticed two problems so far with the .97 pl1 root disk. First, the mount -t msdos command doesn't seem to work. I've tried to mount -t /dev/fd1H1440 /mnt as others have suggested (using fd1, or b: drive which is a 1.44 3.5"

linux-activists - Bill Miller - Aug 23 1992 - 20:57

>Actually the mount -t msdos command works very well. The correct >command is > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt > ^^^^^^^ >in my case. As I said to Jim Winstead and others, it's probably broken because I don't have 0.97.1

linux-activists - Bill Miller - Aug 24 1992 - 16:32

>Uh, do you mean 0.97, or 0.97.1? There are no patch levels for the >root disk. What I got from tsx-11 was 0.97. I suppose I got confused because I do have the patch level 1 *boot disk*. >The correct syntax is 'mount -t msdos /dev/fd1 /mnt

linux-activists - Bill Miller - Aug 24 1992 - 16:57

> Compressed file-system: don't you have big problems with page-alignment, > a page on disk cannot possibly resemble a page in core! Alignment of all but > the first page read-in is lost too! > How do you page? I happen to use DR-DOS 6.0 with

linux-activists - Bill Miller - Aug 25 1992 - 15:38

Hi linuxers, I got the 0.97.1 root image today, and there are still some unresolved questions I have relating to mount -t msdos on it. I realize that I wasn't able to do it in 0.97. It seems to work all right (at least I can read a 1.44 msdos

linux-activists - Bill Miller - Aug 29 1992 - 21:33

Hi Linuxers: I've been playing a bit more with 0.97.1 and have gotten confused with all the different files in the /dev directory. i've read the FAQ and it doesn't seem to help much in my particular case. The basic problem is that my HD (a

linux-activists - Bill Miller - Aug 30 1992 - 01:25