05-13-2008
Boot Floppy made in external drive
there is probably another post about this, i just can't find it on unix.com or google. basically, i am trying to make a boot floppy via CLI/terminal. the problem is that i use an external drive. when i do the first couple of steps, i get rejected. when i do the mounting and unmounting, all the sites tell me to use 'fd0'. it never works for me, im a newbee, correct me if im wrong, isn't fd0 for an internal floppy drive?
some one know the coding to make a boot floppy for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, or DreamLinux?
if you need me to post any info like directories of the drives on my box, just tell me.
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gitmount(1) General Commands Manual gitmount(1)
NAME
gitmount - GNU Interactive Tools - auto-mount script
SYNTAX
gitmount device
DESCRIPTION
gitmount is a script which allows you to mount any block device without specifying the file system type. You may now insert the floppy in
the drive and type ' gitmount fd0' and the first floppy will be mounted in the directory /mnt/fd0. On Linux just press F11 or F12. You
don't need to know the file system type anymore. The directories /mnt/fd0 and /mnt/fd1 are created if they don't exist.
BUGS
Please send bug reports to:
gnuit-dev@gnu.org
SEE ALSO
gitfm(1) gitps(1) gitview(1) gitkeys(1) gitaction(1) gitrgrep(1) gitunpack(1)
AUTHORS
Tudor Hulubei <tudor@cs.unh.edu>
Andrei Pitis <pink@pub.ro>
Ian Beckwith <ianb@erislabs.net> (Current maintainer)
gitmount(1)