From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 3 23:04:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA05462 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 23:04:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from obie.softweyr.com (slcmodem1-p1-13.intele.net [204.118.149.112]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA05451 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 23:04:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA04172; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 00:03:09 -0800 Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 00:03:09 -0800 From: Barnacle Wes Message-Id: <199602040803.AAA04172@obie.softweyr.com> To: Binh Do CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Floppy disk for Unix... In-Reply-To: <116858311@toto.iv> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;^) -- Wes Peters | Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late Softweyr | The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder Consulting | I'm an over forty victim of fate... wes@intele.net | Jimmy Buffett