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1. 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 ?
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2. HP-UX
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Has anyboby ever come across the problem when fd refuses to get initialised. I try to use mediainit command, the fd is being accessed (the fd's LIT is green for some secs) but then I get the message - "Initialize media command failed - permission denied" I checked the diskette,... (1 Reply)
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How can we install usb floppy drive in SCO 5.0.6 (1 Reply)
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
If I need to copy files in Unix to a floppydisk so that the disk is compatible with extended FAT16 and can be read by Windows XP-Do I mount the floppy disk to use ufs? (2 Replies)
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5. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers
I have two Digital boxs... vintage mid90's
OS DEC Unix...
I need to write an ASCII file to the floppy drive for transfer to a Windows box. The boxes are isolated. No email, no internet, no network... except between each other. A primary and a backup.
I examined /dev and found two... (2 Replies)
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6. 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)
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7. Filesystems, Disks and Memory
For some reason I cannot get my UNIX box on my network so I have no way of tranferring files from it or to it. Does anyone.....anyone know how I redirect my output or write to the floppy? (2 Replies)
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HI, I installed Suse 8.1 on an Emachine with a Cyrix processor equivelent to Pentium II. The dmesg reveals that the floppy was recognised, and there is an icon on the desktop for it, but when I trey to access it, it is not available.
If I access it from a terminal window, the error I get... (7 Replies)
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9. 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
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10. 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)
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