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Floppy drive issues
Name: Bilal Date: October 17, 2002 at 13:13:45 Pacific OS: Xp CPU/Ram: 1.1 Ghz / 256 mb
Comment:
Can i copy data from win xp to solaris. i have downloaded driver for solaris on winxp and want to install them on solaris.
Name: chocsforu Date: October 17, 2002 at 14:57:16 Pacific
Reply:
you will have to mount the floppy, maybe as a dos, and copy into solaris' unix file system. cheers !!! aman
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Response Number 2
Name: Mark M Date: October 18, 2002 at 02:42:16 Pacific
Reply:
if it's a dos disk,
then put it into your machine
type: volcheck
cd /floppy ls
You should see the volume label of the disk as a directory. cd into it, then copy whatever you want to wherever.
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Response Number 3
Name: mahe Date: October 18, 2002 at 05:26:11 Pacific
Reply:
copy the files from windows to floppy then insert hte disk into solaris machine 1) type volcheck See the light of floppy disk is glowing if it glows then its ok 2) give the command cp /floppy/floppy0/*.* / it will copy all the files from ur floppy to the / root.
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