Re: transferring files via floppy
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 07:02:05 -0500
Seneca <seneca-cunningham@rogers.com> wrote:
| On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 09:57:16AM +0000, john gennard wrote:
| > Formatting a floppy with 'fdformat' and the using 'dd' appears to
| > put something on the floppy, but then trying to mount it on Woody
| > keeps giving the 'wrong filesystem etc etc' error message. I've
| > tried using 'cp' and even toyed with 'install' but nothing works.
| > I've looked at 'setfdprm' and played with that to no avail.
| >
| > How can I achieve what I'm trying to do? I don't want to install
| > 'mtools' on Smoothwall (in fact I doubt I could do that!).
|
| fdformat does a low-level format of your floppy. You still need to add a
| filesystem. You might want to try superformat from the fdutils package
| (which adds a FAT file system by default) instead of fdformat. Use cp to
| copy the files.
|
fdformat /dev/fd0u1680 (as exemple) adds a Fat file system ??
Right ??
mess-mate
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