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Can copy floppy, but cant copy mounted cdrive

Hi folks, linux newbie here.
I have a dual boot with win98 and redhat 7.1
Just trying get around the system and mount various drives and devices, of which I can do ok. I can copy a vfat floppy ok but if I tried to copy the command.com after mounting as
mkdir /mnt/cdrive
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/cdrive
cd /mnt/cdrive
ls
I can then see the insides of my win drive
its when I try to copy the command.com it wont do it
cp /command /win
/win is a dir made before hand, that resides in the linux partition
It comes up and tells me that its not a dir, and if I tried to ./command.com it then tells me that it is a dir.
I have tried to chmod 777 command.com which it seems to accept, but I still can't copy it
I have tried various changes to the copy prompt, but to no avail.
The one that worked for me with the floppy was
cp * /floppy which copied all the files into the floppy dir I don't want to copy all the files I want to be able to copy selected files at random.
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards Ned

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ahoffmann

mcopy command.com /win
# even works without mounting floppy for FAT and VFAT floppies

Ned_Kelly

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Hi folks, thanks for the comment, I got it to work just fine.
Just one more note, I was trying to copy a file from command.com without knowing its name, all I know is its starts with an s.
I typed this in and it wouldn't work.
cp /mnt/cdrive/command.com/s* /win
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks to ahoffmann for the mcopy

ahoffmann

cp /mnt/cdrive/command.com/s\* /win
# or
cp '/mnt/cdrive/command.com/s*' /win

Ned_Kelly

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Ned_Kelly

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Hi ahoffmann, I tried the prompt but couldn't get it to work. Tried it both ways and I get the error message that cp couldn't stat said line, then that it isn't a dir
Thanks for your help
Ned

Ned_Kelly

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Hi ahoffmann, I tried the prompt but couldn't get it to work. Tried it both ways and I get the error message that cp couldn't stat said line, then that it isn't a dir
Thanks for your help
Ned

ahoffmann

please post exactly what you have done, and what you get

Ned_Kelly

ASKER

Hi ahoffmann, I tried the prompt but couldn't get it to work. Tried it both ways and I get the error message that cp couldn't stat said line, then that it isn't a dir
Thanks for your help
Ned

Ned_Kelly

ASKER

Hello ahoffmann, thanks again for your help.
This is my process so far.
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/cdrive
cd /mnt/cdrive
cp /mnt/cdrive/command.com/s\* /win
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/cdrive/command.com/s*' : Not a directory
I then changed it to read
cp '/mnt/cdrive/command.com/s*' /win
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/cdrive/command.com/s*' : Not a directory
It came up with the same message.
The messages are written as they appeared on the screen.
I have been able to copy the whole of command.com over to the /win dirbut I haven't been able to look in it.
Is there something that I have to do to enter command.com.
Many thanks for your help.
Ned

ahoffmann

anything is ok. Where is you Problem?

/mnt/cdrive/command.com is a file on your floppy, so you can copy it using cp.

So /mnt/cdrive/command.com/s* cannot be a directory, and therfore cp complains.

Died you probably mean:
cp /mnt/cdrive/s\* /win

Ned_Kelly

ASKER

Hi folks, command is a directory on the cdrive, my mistake was trying to get into command.com I think.
As my original question was to copy command.com which was answered by swapsthegreat then I will award the points to swaps.
Many thanks to both swaps and ahoffmann, your coments were greatly appreciated.
I will be back no doubt
Ned