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cgmd
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 Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 9:16 pm Post subject: How to copy to floppy? [SOLVED] |
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I rarely use the floppy drive, but now must put some files on floppy. Would someone please tell me the easiest way to get my floppy working on my gentoo box? Either that, or direct me to a reference on the issue...
Thanks, again, in advance...
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greasy_grasshopper
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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| You have to mount the floppy drive, copy your files and then unmount it. Search google for mounting and unmounting floppy drives and google and you'll know what to do. |
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hensan
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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Add floppy support to your kernel, select (on 2.6 kernels):
Device Drivers -> Block devices -> Normal floppy disk support
If you wan't to read/write DOS floppys add msdos FS support:
File systems -> DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems -> MSDOS fs support
File systems -> Native Language Support -> (Whatever you need here)
To format DOS floppys you'll also need to emerge dosfstools. |
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penguinlnx
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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for files larger than 1.4 meg you should look into a USB flashkey drive.
If you need re-writable media, why not a CD-R-W disk (re-use 100 times)? |
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cgmd
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Can you recommend a usb flash key? |
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amightywind
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| Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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I use both a floppy and and flashkey. As for the floppy you have several choices:
Use mtools mcopy, mdir, mformat etc to create/write files in a DOS compatable way. Assume mtools is configured to recognise /def/fd0 as a:
| Code: | $ mformat a:
$ mcopy <filename> a:
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Use tar and just:
| Code: | $ tar cvf /dev/fd0 ./<dir>
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Create a file system like reiserfs4 and copy that way
| Code: | $ mkreseirfs /dev/fd0
$ mount -t reiserfs /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
$ cp -r ./<dir> /mnt/floppy
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To use the flashkey you must first have hotplug installed. If /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda2 appear after you stick it in you are good to go. I use a SanDisk Cruzer Mini 512MB. Make sure your kernel has the necessary USB storage modules.
| Code: | $ mkreseirfs /dev/sda1
$ mount -t reiserfs /dev/sda /mnt/flashkey
$ cp -r ./<dir> /mnt/flashkey
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Fun! I guess this would work to:
| Code: | $ tar cf /dev/sda1 ./<dir>
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but I haven't tried it.
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JSharku
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| Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 6:28 am Post subject: |
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| amightywind wrote: |
Create a file system like reiserfs4 and copy that way
| Code: | $ mkreseirfs /dev/fd0
$ mount -t reiserfs /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
$ cp -r ./<dir> /mnt/floppy
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Don't know about reiser4, but both reiser3 and ext3 complain about not being able to create on such a small device, ext2 or minix fs are more suitable imho.
EDIT:
Ok twiddling with block and journal sizes I was able to create a reiserfs(v3) on 1.4Megs, but it still is terribly inefficient. Using a blocksize of 512 and journal size of 513(reiser minimum) I get: | Code: | | /root/floppy 1.5M 321K 1.1M |
As opposed to ext2: | Code: | | /root/floppy 1.4M 13K 1.3M |
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Gentree
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 12:42 am Post subject: |
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Most floppies are pre-formatted msdos . As you say it is for occational use and you probably want to read the floppy on another system later it makes no sense to reformat the disk.
You will probably find that you already have /dev/fd0 present in /etc/fstab so just try:
| Code: | mount /dev/fd0
df /mnt/floppy
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/floppy/0 1424 0 1424 0% /mnt/floppy
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copy you files with cp then umount /dev/fd0
Dont forget the last step since the files are written to a buffer and only committed to the disk by umount , note it is umount not unmount as was posted above.
HTH 
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