On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 05:25:07PM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Frank Murphy thought:
> On 2/11/2005 5:15:25 PM, Glen Gray (glen at lincor.com) wrote:
> >
> >Am I missing something particular about this product ? Shouldn't you
> >just be able to mount it loopback
> >mount -o loop bootkdisk.img /mnt/floppy
>> Won't let me mount unless I specify fs, thats where the problem lies,
> tries as ext2,3 etc no joy.
Try fat, fat32.
> Floppy 1 is linux based, though it won't allow me read\mount it.
> If booted from it's linux
> Floppies 2,3,4,5 come up as fat32.
syslinux loads off fat filesystems rather than linux ones so fat32 may be
a valid fs to use. In any event, you could always get the list of
supported fs types from 'man mount' and try each in turn...
Conor
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