Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 00:03:09 -0800 From: Barnacle Wes <wes@obie.softweyr.com> To: Binh Do <binhdo@binhdo.home.cs.ubc.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Floppy disk for Unix... Message-ID: <199602040803.AAA04172@obie.softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <116858311@toto.iv>
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Binh Do writes:
> It may be a very stupid question. I just wonder if we have commands to
> use floppy disks as Unix disks, i.e. DOS may not understand such disks.
> For now I just use floppy as DOS (using mtools) and I do not see the topic
> discueesed in several Unix books.
>
> Using "man -k floppy" I see some commands like "fdformat" fdwrite but how
> to copy to the disks after formatting them?
You could make a filesystem on the floppy, using newfs, and mount like
a hard disk. You can also use tar with floppies, for backups or
moving software from one machine to another. As far as Unix is
concerned, a floppy is just another disk drive. ;^)
> Thank you for explanation and have a good weekend.
Working on it. ;^)
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