Re: transferring files via floppy
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.
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Seneca
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