SUMMARY:mount_pcfs is missing

From: Rainer Wolf <rainer.wolf_at_rz.uni-ulm.de>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 14:37:36 +0200

Hello,
... the question /replies follows ...

The solution was to get the 'mtools' which
are part of the OSFDOSTOOLS subset , located on the OS Volume-CD.
For the installation the OSFDOSTOOLversion must match the current OS -level.

After installation you can inform yourself with 'man mtools'
about the possibilities on manipulation of DOS floppies.

On a 433 for example with a floppy not at scsi you may set
a link like /dev/disk/floppy -> /dev/disk/floppy0c
and the mtools can access the floppy

Greetings and thanks again
Rainer


Thanks to :
-olle
Dr. Thomas P. Blinn
Davis, Alan
Matthias Dolder
alan
rml

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original question:
> i have not installed all subsets on a 5.1 true64-unix
> and now I want to mount a diskette which was written on a pc
> in the floppy-drive. I think i am missing just the subset with
> the missing mount-program .
> Someone knows in which subset i would find ?
answers:
If you have  a FAT-formatted diskette you don't mount it. You retrieve
the data using the mtools packages. It is found in /usr/bin/mtools if
you have installed the proper subsets
-olle
............
There is no support in Tru64 UNIX for mounting a file system that was
written in "FAT" format by a PC.  You can use the "mtools" component;
it is, I think, an optional subset, but I don't remember exactly which
of the subsets it's in..  Ah, yes, OSFDOSTOOLS525 has it.  If you have
reference pages loaded, look for things like the "mcopy" reference page
and the like.  Yes, very primitive support, sorry.. 
Tom
.............
As far as I know, Tru64 doesn't have a pcfs mount capability. The mtools
package is included in the OS distribution to allow manipulation of DOS
floppies. It's in the OSFDOSTOOLS subset.
.............
man mtools [if DOS Tools had been installed, part of the base OS CD]
should point you into the right direction.
hth
MD
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        I don't think any version of Tru64 UNIX has had native support
        for PC file systems.  Certainly none of the V4 and earlier
        versions did.  If you think V5 has such support, you can
        search the subset inventory files; /usr/.smdb./*.inv.  What
        Tru64 UNIX does have user mode support for reading and
        writing such file systems; see the mtools manual page.
.............
OSFDOSTOOLS
At least that's what the subset is named in 4.0G. I'm not up to date on my
only Alpha... but the stuff you are looking for is called "mtools".
Note: you don't mount the floppy with mtools, you just issue commands like
"mcopy" and "mdir". The man pages for mtools explains everything you need
to make it work.
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Received on Fri Jun 14 2002 - 12:41:24 NZST