Thanks to:
Marc Santucci <marc@protocol.zycad.com>
Thang Victor Dinh <tdinh@mail.irvine-sensors.com>
"Christoph J. Mutter" <chris@aec.at>
Robert Pasken <pasken@thunder.slu.edu>
Xiaohong Liu <liu@vxr.niddk.nih.gov>
Feng Qiu <fqiu@bmb-fs1.biochem.okstate.edu>
new star <newstar1@ix.netcom.com>
Niall O Broin - Gray Wizard <nobroin@esoc.esa.de>
Kevin 'Grog' Pankhurst <kev@ushers.demon.co.uk>
Kenneth Franco <ebyl@gdeb.com>
John Rosenberg <jcr@bgumby.bwh.harvard.edu>
Stephen Potter <spp@psa.pencom.com>
Tom Doong <doong@aharinc.com>
**My original question:
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Can someone tell me how to create a UNIX file system on a floppy disk? I
am using SunOS4.1.3 and Solaris2.4.
How can I store/view UNIX files on a floppy (Not in tar format,
just ascii files)?
Thanks a lot!
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**Niall O Broin - Gray Wizard <nobroin@esoc.esa.de> wrote:
To mount a filesystem, it must first be created, which is what
newfs does and before you can create a Unix filesystem on a floppy, you
must first do fdformat on it.
To use a floppy for tar files, neither fdformat nor newfs are necessary.
They won't do any harm - it would just be a waste of time.
**For SunOS system, the answer is:
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Niall O Broin - Gray Wizard <nobroin@esoc.esa.de> wrote:
fdformat # this must be done for each floppy you use
newfs /dev/rfd0a # as must this (but each one time only, of course)
mkdir /floppy # this must be done once only
mount /dev/fd0a /floppy # this must be done each time you want to use a
floppy
# but see note below to make this a little handier
Niall O Broin
UNIX Network Administrator, Stations and Communications Engineering
Department
European Space Operations Centre nobroin@esoc.esa.de
Darmstadt, Germany Ph./Fax +49 6151
90 3619/2179
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**For Solaris system, the answer is:
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Xiaohong Liu <liu@vxr.niddk.nih.gov> wrote:
fdformat
volcheck
/usr/sbin/newfs /vol/rdsk/unnamed_floppy
(or ls /vol/rdsk to see what is there, then use it for
unnamed_floppy)
eject, then put floppy in again
from file manager, check floppy, a window for the floppy disk will come up
with lost+found fold in it.
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Xiaohong Liu
310-496-7559 (voice)
301-402-1967 (fax)
xiaohong@helix.nih.gov
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