mysticpain Posted June 6, 2004 Report Share Posted June 6, 2004 I am having trouble unpacking the content and and installing the itmodem-2.6-alk-2.tar build from my floppy so I can edit it according to the instructions from the general help portion of this forum. I am sure it is something stupid I am not doing in the command line but I am new to linux and not extremely familiar with all the commands. Could someone offer some help with this? I am using Mandrake 10 and have the tar file on my floppy and I am trying to get it upacked and install it on the hard drive so I can edit the drivers makefile according to those instructions. I have an IBM laptop with a crappy winmodem and it looks like this is the solution I just need to get the ball rolling. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted June 6, 2004 Report Share Posted June 6, 2004 mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy cd /mnt/floppy tar -xvf itmodem-2.6-alk-2.tar ~ If it is a *.tar.gz: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy cd /mnt/floppy tar -zxvf itmodem-2.6-alk-2.tar.gz ~ *.tar.bz2: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy cd /mnt/floppy tar -jxvf itmodem-2.6-alk-2.tar.bz2 ~ or you can do: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy cd /mnt/floppy cp itmodem-2.6-alk-2.tar ~ cd ~ tar -xvf itmodem-2.6-alk-2.tar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mysticpain Posted June 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2004 when I try to /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy I get an permission denied error. I am in root. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted June 6, 2004 Report Share Posted June 6, 2004 That could mean that it is alreay mounted. Try the commands after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 6, 2004 Report Share Posted June 6, 2004 (edited) yes, supermount mounts floppies in ML-10 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 so you should just have to; cp /mnt/floppy/name_of_file ~/ oh, which puts it in your $HOME DIR echo $HOME Edited June 6, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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