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

This is on SCO 5.0.5, but should be the same on Solaris I think.

if you want to copy to a dos system.

doscp <filename> a:<filename>

for a unix system

tar cvf /dev/fd0 <filename>

however the device name /dev/fd0 may not be the correct one on your system.

for more details, type

man tar

or

man doscp

for the manual entries for these commands.

What Kevin said was correct.

If though you just want to put say a simple .txt file on a floppy. (example only any UNIX file can go on a floppy)


cp /etc/filename.txt ./ (this is providing your ala ready in the floppy directory and teh floppy is mounted).

Solaris does not have doscp. You can mount it using File Manager or the mount command. FM puts it into /floppy - you can copy using the cp command. Also check out the man page on dos2unix and unix2dos for moving files from dos to unix (and back). Mounting manually you may need to stop volmgt (remember to restart it afterwards)

#/etc/init.d/volmgt stop
#mount -F pcfs /dev/diskette /mnt
# ls /mnt
ASPI2DOS.SYS AUTOEXEC.BAT DRVSPACE.BIN FLASHPT.SYS SETRAMD.BAT
ASPI4DOS.SYS BTCDROM.SYS EBD.CAB HIMEM.SYS XCOPY.EXE
ASPI8DOS.SYS BTDOSM.SYS EXTRACT.EXE OAKCDROM.SYS XCOPY32.EXE
ASPI8U2.SYS COMMAND.COM FDISK.EXE RAMDRIVE.SYS XCOPY32.MOD
ASPICD.SYS CONFIG.SYS FINDRAMD.EXE README.TXT


/vol/dev/diskette0/unnamed_floppy
1423 1228 195 87% /floppy/unnamed_floppy


Links to floppy info:
Blank Floppy

Bootable floppy?

mounting floppies