Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 22:01:12 -0500 (EST) From: Burley <khan@ibm.net> To: Joseph Wronkowski <jawronko@islc.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: disk copy Message-ID: <XFMail.970309221913.khan@ibm.net> In-Reply-To: <199703100208.VAA10450@server.islc.net>
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On 10-Mar-97 Joseph Wronkowski wrote:
>Hi
>First I am trying to format disks for bsd so they will mount and the
>correct way to mount it. Second if you could describe how to use dd. I
>want to try to copy some disk but I have been unable to figure it out. I
>use fdformat to fromat fd0 and that seems to work but it won't mount
>because it says bad super block. I tried to use newfs on it but it says no
>label so I try to use disksetup but it won't read fd0.
>
>Can someone help pleas
Some questions and info...
Q)Why do you wish to format for bsd...
you can read doz/windos disk
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How to copy disk is:
dd if=(disk name) of=/dev/fd0.1440
^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^
in file like ^ This is the a:(drive)..the end number is for 1.44 floppy
Boot.flp ^^
out file
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say you would like to copy a disk a: to a:
example: dd if=/dev/fd0.1440 of=/home/infile (that will copy all of a:
to infile)
now copy it back would
dd if=/home/infile of=/dev/fd0.1440 (that will copy infile to a:)
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or you can mcopy a: /home/infile
look in the manpages....by typing man mcopy
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to mount try this: make dir called /adrv
mkdir /adrv
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /adrv
that should do it do a dos disk...but the msdos will be something else if
you use bsd disk...
I hope that helped
khan@ibm.net
E-Mail: khan@ibm.net
Date: 09-Mar-97
Time: 22:19:12
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