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From: ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mike Lawrie)
Subject: Re: mcopy
Message-ID: <CBzv35.Koq@hippo.ru.ac.za>
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
References: <CBytsq.G3v@cosy.sbg.ac.at>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 06:52:16 GMT
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In <CBytsq.G3v@cosy.sbg.ac.at> tom@cosy.sbg.ac.at (Thomas Auer) writes:

>    ..... using mcopy works well when copying from the floppy
>    to the hard drive, but the other way the following error message appears:
>    "init: open: no such file or directory" 

1) you need to have write privileges to /dev/fd0a (eg be the superuser)

2) you _might_ need to apply the patchkit, or at least re-compile mcopy
(actually, I use mwrite).

You _don't_ mount the disk, just do something like

	mwrite 386bsd.file a:dos.fil

making sure that you use a valid DOS filename.

Mike
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