trouble installing winmodem build

[mysticpain]

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

[Steve Scrimpshire]

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

[mysticpain]

when I try to /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

 

I get an permission denied error. I am in root.

[Steve Scrimpshire]

That could mean that it is alreay mounted. Try the commands after that.

[bvc]

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