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Name: dumb_newbie
Date: September 5, 2000 at 12:53:30 Pacific
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how to copy a file from the hard disk to a floppy in unix? (do i need to mount the drive first or find out where its mounted?)



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Response Number 1
Name: Jayadevan Chembakassery
Date: September 6, 2000 at 14:20:49 Pacific
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In the case of Solaris 2.x, run the command, volcheck -v
The floppy will be mounted automatically on /floppy/floppy0
Then, cp /floppy/floppy0
For other unix flavors try,
doscp /dev/
You should know the device name of your drive.
Eg:-fpd0, fd1 etc ...

If nothing works, mount the floppy device and copy the file
mount -F pcfs /dev/ /mnt
cp /mnt



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Date: September 6, 2000 at 14:36:14 Pacific
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Response No:1 should read as ....

In the case of Solaris 2.x, run the command, volcheck -v
The floppy will be mounted automatically on /floppy/floppy0
Then,
cp filename /floppy/floppy0
For other unix flavors try,
doscp filename /dev/floppy_device_name
Note :- You should know the device name of your drive.
Eg:-fpd0, fd1 etc ...

If nothing works, mount the floppy device and copy the file
mount -F pcfs /dev/floppy_device_name /mnt
cp filename /mnt


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