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Name: James
Date: March 12, 2001 at 22:04:18 Pacific
Subject: Simple Command question

Comment:

Hello there, I have a relativly simple question to ask. I was wondering if someone can give me the exact command I would need to do these two things.
1. Mount a floppy disk drive
2. Run a RPM file that is called
NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-6.rh70-up.i386.rpm
off of that disk drive.
Please give the exact command, as I am not expierenced in linux cammands yet!
Thanks in advance!
-James

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Response Number 1

Name: Vi
Date: March 12, 2001 at 22:54:03 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

10 mount /mnt/floppy (in mandrake anyways)
to install the rpm log in as root and
"rpm -i NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-6.rh70-up.i386.rpm"
without the quotes.
oh ya make sure as a normal user you have
"permission to mount the floppy" some distros
don't set that up after install

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Response Number 2

Name: JS
Date: March 13, 2001 at 01:36:14 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

Or if that doesn't work, try:
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
It could be that you have to create /mnt/floppy first.
You can add the option -t vfat.
The floppy drive is now accessable under /mnt/floppy.

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