oops- i put the 'Subject' text in the 'Cc' heading last time.
thanx to: allen davis, dr.tom blinn, w mills, cyula szokoly, felix maurer.
the consensus is that the firmware floppy is in DOS format.
the update program runs under the ARC console which reads
DOS disks.
thanx to all!!
-----Original Message-----
From: system PRIVILEGED account- John F. Marten
[mailto:root_at_tigger.oslc.org]
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 3:52 PM
To: tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov
Subject: floppy mounting
i did search the archives-couldn't find what i was looking for.
a whiles back i created a bootable floppy with the v.5.2 firmware
upgrade on it. i thought i would check to see what was on the diskette
so i issued a #mount /dev/rfd0c /mnt command i got a response of:
/dev/rfd0c on /mnt: Block device required
so i tried
#mount /dev/fd0c /mnt instead and got:
/dev/fd0c on /mnt: No valid filesystem exists on this partition
not what i was expecting. i tried rfd0a fd0a, too. nada.
i didn't try mtools as the it's not a dos floppy.
Received on Thu Apr 15 1999 - 19:11:06 NZST