Bob, Camaleon, Dom, Stephen, Tom & others, I am replying to the last message I found in the thread. If there is one later, I didn't ignore it deliberately.
* From: Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> * Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 22:21:13 -0500 (EST) > No, the data is intact, as the mounting of the image file with > the loop option confirms. Also, further experimentation seems > to suggest that if the floppy disk is physically mounted in the > floppy drive during boot, then I can logically mount it with the > mount command after boot. This really is looking like a bug. > I intend to file a bug report, but I'd like to do some more > trial-and-error experimentation before I do. This is relevant. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=483781 The best explanation appears to be cited by A.E. Patrakov in the bug report. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.3/chapter08/fstab.html Scroll to the bottom of the page and read "Filesystems with MS-DOS ...". My encounter with this has been an attempt to make a bootable diskette for updating the BIOS on a Foxconn board. Did Foxconn have their filesystem mounted with UTF8 and the US codepage? If they used strictly ASCII filenames, are the encoding and codepage a concern? [Use MS or have more trouble than bargained for ... again!] Regards, ... Peter E. -- Telephone 1 360 450 2132. bcc: peasthope at shaw.ca Shop pages http://carnot.yi.org/ accessible as long as the old drives survive. Personal pages http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/ . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/171056975.48687.42143@cantor.invalid
