mounting floppy during stage 1 install

bonito · Guest

I am currently on the stage 1 install of gentoo where I have copied the tarball to the drive and chrooted into the gentoo install. I now need to do an emerge rsync but I have a pppoe connection to the net and it seems I cant connect in that manner through the install instructions. I have rp-pppoe and pppd on a floppy and I want to mount the floppy to copy the files onto the drive to compile them so I can connect to the net and complete my install, however, I have been unable to mount the floppy. What do I need to do in order to mount the floppy in either the chrooted environment or the cdrom environment? As long as I can move those files onto the drive and unpack them, I should be in the clear. Can anyone help me?

tod · Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 6:55 pm Post subject:

Hi!

I would mount the floppy before change rooting. For example, if

/mnt/gentoo

is where you will be change rooting to

mkdir /mnt/gentoo/mnt/floppy

mount -t <fstype> /dev/floppy/0 /mnt/gentoo/mnt/floppy

After you change root, your floppy should be mounted at /mnt/floppy

hth

tod

Guest · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 4:59 pm Post subject:

Ya, I did that, and I got the same error message that I got before...mounting the device failed because there is no such device....

Guest · Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2002 8:02 pm Post subject:

have you insert the folppy module?
try: modprobe floppy
and then mount ...
Maybe it's stupid but sometimes the obvious is not obvious.