Preserved Topic: Windows to Unix woes... (Page 1 of 1)

Somehow I get the feeling I'm gonna be doing overtime in shock-treatment after this is all over, but oh well...

How do you work with a floppy in unix? I've searched google and gone through a dozen or so sites already that describe the process, and none will work on this system. The best I've got is:
"cp: cannot create //floppy/floppy0/test.html: Permission denied"
Tried "$ volcheck -v" which returns "no media found"

Another site had something about dosls, doscp, dosmkdir, and so on, which this system insists that there is no such thing as any of those.

The closest site I've found is http://www.aplawrence.com/Basics/floppy.html
However, the line: tar cvf /dev/fd0
returns "tar: Missing filenames"
and: tar tvf /dev/fd0
returns "tar: /dev/fd0: Device busy"


Any helpful little tips or tricks or advice or anything would be much appreciated.

you shouldn't need to tar anything for this to work

Check the section on mounting. That's where most of it is.
The way unix works is it makes the floppy part of the filesystem usually in the
/mnt directory. do an "ls /mnt" and see what you get. There should be one that says something along the lines of "floppy" (that's what I have on my linux box) if it's not there you may need to mount the floppy to the system once mounted you should be able to use the file pretty much the same as any other directory on the drive. ie
cd /mnt/floppy




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