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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!psgrain!ee.und.ac.za!shrike.und.ac.za!hippo.ru.ac.za!ccml From: ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mike Lawrie) Subject: Re: mcopy Message-ID: <CBzv35.Koq@hippo.ru.ac.za> Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa References: <CBytsq.G3v@cosy.sbg.ac.at> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 06:52:16 GMT Lines: 23 In <CBytsq.G3v@cosy.sbg.ac.at> tom@cosy.sbg.ac.at (Thomas Auer) writes: > ..... using mcopy works well when copying from the floppy > to the hard drive, but the other way the following error message appears: > "init: open: no such file or directory" 1) you need to have write privileges to /dev/fd0a (eg be the superuser) 2) you _might_ need to apply the patchkit, or at least re-compile mcopy (actually, I use mwrite). You _don't_ mount the disk, just do something like mwrite 386bsd.file a:dos.fil making sure that you use a valid DOS filename. Mike -- Mike Lawrie <ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za> Director, Computing Services ph +27 461 22023 x 279 Rhodes University, Drostdy Rd ========+27 461 318279 from July 15========= Grahamstown 6140, South Africa fx +27 461 25049