1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

how do i copy a file from solaris to a floppy drive. today is my first day using solaris (3 Replies)

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

hello , i have sun sparc machine with sunos2.7 , the machine has a cdrom but no floppy drive , it is networked with windows machine , from where i can use ftp and telnet. can i use floppy drive of windows machine and create a boot image(of unix) on that drive, using ftp? thanx raju (4 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have solaris 8 (Intel Version) and I was wondering how I can transfer a bunch of text files (shellscripts) via floppy. I don't have internet connectivity with my Solaris pc so I can't download the files. I have the text files on my windows 2000 pc and copied them to a floppy but when I try to... (7 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

i manage to screw up alittle i entered in /etc/fstab mount /dev/fd0 msdos /mnt/floppy 2 2 or something and now when i boot i get an error like this The following file systems had an unexpected inconsistency: msdos: /dev/fd0 (/mnt/floppy) Unknown error; Help! init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc... (3 Replies)

5. Filesystems, Disks and Memory

i am trying to reformat a floppy i am using solaris 9 when i run this: rmformat -F quick /vol/dev/aliases/floppy0 it tells me that it cannot perform the operation on a mounted device. how do i unmount the device and format the floppy? (1 Reply)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, i want to mount a floppy disk device on a System V/68 Release R3V6 system because i want to copy some files from this Unix computer to a Win-98 based computer. I have logged in as "root" and used command line: mount /dev/f0ps2 /floppy (the "floppy folder" on the computer i'm working on is... (1 Reply)

7. Solaris

hello from newbie :) i have a question : i've just installed sol-10 on x86 - and i cant access my floppy/cdrom. the device naming totally different from those in bsd or linux - where it was much more difficult to understand :( the mntab/vfstab - i know where it was pointing at - but from... (2 Replies)

8. SCO

Can anybody help me out to mount USB flash /floppy drive in sco openserver 6.0 . (5 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Regarding floppy drive .. I need a command or a method by which i can detect a floppy drive is present or not ? Thanks, Priya. (4 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello all! I just recently inherited a mid-90s gateway full tower system (Original Pentium, SIMM style RAM, etc.). I had always wanted to try an old version of UNIX, and having come across a copy of AT&T System V R4 decided that the time was ripe. There were 30 disks total, and after booting to... (1 Reply)