Re: [Rule-list] problem with update disk

[Devon]

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On Thursday 21 February 2002 06:17 pm, Devon wrote:
> On Thursday 21 February 2002 05:53 pm, Brock Organ wrote:
> > Benoit,
> >
> > I was able to mount the update.img via loopback and copy the files
> > onto a freshly mke2fs-ed floppy, then use that as an updates disk ...
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > brock
>
> How did the install go, first of all? :)
>
> You can do as Brock suggested above, or grab
> http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rule/updates.tar
>
> Put a floppy in the drive, and say
> '/sbin/mke2fs -m0 /dev/fd0'
> mount /mnt/floppy
> cp updates.tar /mnt/floppy/
> tar -xvf /mnt/floppy/updates.tar
> rm -f /mnt/floppy/updates.tar
> umount /mnt/floppy

Um, that was a silly post.

If you do this, and then check, the floppy will be empty. :)
Try cd-ing to the floppy directory first, or the updates will end up in 
the directory you run the command from.

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