> > Yeah. More checking on my part seems to show the problem is with fat12
> > format floppy disk images mounted as msdos over loopback. That hangs
>
> [wolff@cave ~wolff]# gunzip w95boot*
> [wolff@cave ~wolff]# mount `pwd`/w95boot.img /mnt/floppy/ -o loop
> [wolff@cave ~wolff]# mount
> [...]
> /home/wolff/w95boot.img on /mnt/floppy type msdos (rw,loop=/dev/loop3)
> [wolff@cave ~wolff]# mount -V
> mount: mount-2.5l
Thanks for the excellent printout of the commands required.
$ sudo mount -t msdos -o loop bdisk /mnt
$ mount
...
/var/tmp/bdisk on /mnt type msdos (rw,loop=/dev/loop0)
$ df
..
/var/tmp/bdisk 1423 767 656 54% /mnt
This on my hugely munged 2.0.25. I haven't gone back to the redhat 4.2
systems yet to retry a pure 2.0.30.
Peter
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