I've often wanted to be a Curator, for a Computer History Museum.
Kenneth Parker
> > so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy.
> >
> > I'm not sure that you really can. What's your reasoning for
> > doing this? Are you just spoiling for an unnecessary fight?
> > Or do you really want to boot off it?
>
> I want to use a fl
> Since it was the industry standard for "sneakernet" file
> transfer for over a decade, I don't think it's a strange use case.
> What did I miss?
The two decades that passed by since? ;-)
Especially since the media was notoriously unreliable back then and it
probably hasn't gotten better with a
> I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk
> so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy.
Reading the manpage of mkfs.fat gives me the impression that
mkfs.fat /dev/sdc
should do the trick. Have you tried?
Stefan
On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 5:43 PM David Wright wrote:
>
> On Sun 17 Mar 2019 at 13:19:29 (+0100), Anders Andersson wrote:
> > I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk
> > so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy.
>
> I'
On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 1:46 PM Curt wrote:
>
> On 2019-03-17, Anders Andersson wrote:
> > I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk
> > so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy.
> > Normally I would have used mform
On Sun 17 Mar 2019 at 13:19:29 (+0100), Anders Andersson wrote:
> I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk
> so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy.
I'm not sure that you really can. What's your reasoning for
doing this? Ar
Curt wrote:
> On 2019-03-17, Anders Andersson wrote:
> > I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk
> > so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy.
> > Normally I would have used mformat from the mtools package, but it
>
On 2019-03-17, Anders Andersson wrote:
> I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk
> so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy.
> Normally I would have used mformat from the mtools package, but it
> appears that I can not supp
I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk
so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy.
Normally I would have used mformat from the mtools package, but it
appears that I can not supply a device name, just "emulated names"
like A: which ar
. The Plop website has
> details. Struggling with a pile of floppies is no fun and a floppy which
> works today ivery likely not to do so next month.
>
Actually, I've had to transfer data from an old windowz to another
windowz system and I found that all the spare floppies I had lyi
it up to a monitor and have
someone like my kind and patient wife or, before I retired, a
coworker change the boot sequence order from floppy-C:-CDROM to
CDROM-floppy-C: or CDROM-C:-floppy which prevents the hard drive
from grabbing the boot sequence each time.
Of course you can make the har
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
> Just curious if you looked at the 'ufiformat' command.
>
> -- john
No John, I haven't, not having seen that word on screen before.
And since I've better ways of doing that for the last 3 or 4 years,
called Drivewire, which
On 1/15/2017 3:26 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
And any drive thats 10 years old & maybe even some newer ones are
desperately in need of being pulled out, and any covers that are
blocking good access to the carriage drive screw, need to be uncovered
for a serious cleaning with alcohol or even acetone s
group postings, I learned that there is a
> companion to setfdprm which is getfdprm. I put in a good and
> formatted floppy and ran getfdprm on a 1.44 Mb disk. The
> application produced
>
> DS HD sect=18
>
> This occurs after you have spun the disk to mount it or done
> anything e
a floppy which
works today ivery likely not to do so next month.
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Brian.
ch is getfdprm. I put in a good and
formatted floppy and ran getfdprm on a 1.44 Mb disk. The
application produced
DS HD sect=18
This occurs after you have spun the disk to mount it or done
anything else to make the disk turn for reading.
If you eject the diskette, the value stored in set
t use every day, is not intuitive and can cause hours of prodding and
head-scratching/banging.
In my searching via Google and reading some of the
articles and discussion group postings, I learned that there is a
companion to setfdprm which is getfdprm. I put in a good and
formatted floppy an
the first to support the AMD Phenom quad core chips, has an fdc that is
> unhappy with a 256 byte sector size, and will crash/lock this machine,
> so bad that it takes the long push on the power button, doing a
Are you sure this isn't a kernel driver issue? The Linux floppy driver
On Sunday 15 January 2017 09:17:45 Martin McCormick wrote:
> Mirko Parthey writes:
> > On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 03:32:08PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> > > What happened after I zapped the floppy is that fdformat will not
> > > run because it sees no pre-
On Sat 14 Jan 2017 at 15:32:08 -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> The fdformat utility allows one to low-level format a
> floppy disk. I need to convince an older PC that it should boot
> from one of it's usb ports and the Plop Project has a boot
> manager that fits on a 1.
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On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 12:45:54PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
[...]
> Interestingly enough, I don't seem to have either setfdprm(8) or
> setfdprm itself in my amd64 Debian Jessie system, so I can't check this
> for you. /etc/mediaprm
On Sun, 15 Jan 2017, Martin McCormick wrote:
>The generic floppy devices, /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1, will fail to work
>with fdformat when a non-standard format is being used, or if the for-
>mat has not been autodetected earlier. In this case, use s
Mirko Parthey writes:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 03:32:08PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> > What happened after I zapped the floppy is that fdformat will not
> > run because it sees no pre-existing format information.
> >
> > What am I forgetting or what has cha
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 03:32:08PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> What happened after I zapped the floppy is that fdformat will not
> run because it sees no pre-existing format information.
>
> What am I forgetting or what has changed?
According to the fdformat man page, you
On Sat, 14 Jan 2017, Martin McCormick wrote:
> then decided to start from scratch after it didn't work so I used
> a bulk tape eraser and completely erased the disk which is
...
> What happened after I zapped the floppy is that fdformat will not
> run because it sees no pr
The fdformat utility allows one to low-level format a
floppy disk. I need to convince an older PC that it should boot
from one of it's usb ports and the Plop Project has a boot
manager that fits on a 1.4Mb floppy. It is called plpbt.iso
so I got a 1.4Mb disk and copied the boot manag
On Thu 17 Dec 2015 at 21:55:48 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 18:56 +, Brian wrote:
> > I don't think any of the solutions do help you to write to a raw
> > device, whether it be a floppy or a USB stick. Writing a Debian ISO
> > to USB is not
Sven Arvidsson writes:
> dd'ing an image to a raw device does require root.
Why? If it's a removable device and not a system filesystem, it
wouldn't be unreasonable to give such access to anyone logged in
at the console, on the grounds that they could otherwise take
the device away and write it o
Hi,
Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> Writing ISO to USB could also be done through udisks presumably?
A safe method which distinguishes removable media from
the fixely installed disks would be of great interest for
https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb
Have a nice day :)
Thomas
isk image to /dev/fd0, and I'm not sure how the solutions
> could help me, but really, it's rare enough that I don't mind
> sudoing.
> I just thought it was an interesting regression.
If sudo becomes a chore you could write a simple udev rule that adds
back the floppy gro
On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 18:56 +, Brian wrote:
> I don't think any of the solutions do help you to write to a raw
> device,
> whether it be a floppy or a USB stick. Writing a Debian ISO to USB is
> not uncommon here and I do not appreciate having to be root to do it.
> A
>
On Thu 17 Dec 2015 at 01:04:43 +0100, Anders Andersson wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2015-12-16 at 22:09 +0100, Anders Andersson wrote:
> >> Believe it or not, but I still have a floppy disk drive in my
> >> workst
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-12-16 at 22:09 +0100, Anders Andersson wrote:
>> Believe it or not, but I still have a floppy disk drive in my
>> workstation, and I have to use it occasionally! I just noticed that
>> my
>> user
On Wed, 2015-12-16 at 22:09 +0100, Anders Andersson wrote:
> Believe it or not, but I still have a floppy disk drive in my
> workstation, and I have to use it occasionally! I just noticed that
> my
> user was not allowed to write to /dev/fd0 even though it belongs to
> the group &q
On 12/16/2015 10:09 PM, Anders Andersson wrote:
Believe it or not, but I still have a floppy disk drive in my
workstation, and I have to use it occasionally! I just noticed that my
user was not allowed to write to /dev/fd0 even though it belongs to
the group "floppy". I found tha
Believe it or not, but I still have a floppy disk drive in my
workstation, and I have to use it occasionally! I just noticed that my
user was not allowed to write to /dev/fd0 even though it belongs to
the group "floppy". I found that /dev/fd0 belongs to the group "disk",
, but it started long floppy seek at the boot, which is
sort of annoying, as it's a home PC, switched on every day. I tried
looking for solution, but I could not find anything to solve the problem.
The floppy seek is off in the BIOS,
/etc/default/grub
contains
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=tr
b2. All
> > fine and well, but it started long floppy seek at the boot, which is
> > sort of annoying, as it's a home PC, switched on every day. I tried
> > looking for solution, but I could not find anything to solve the problem.
> >
> > Th
MRH wrote:
Just to bump the question (below) - anyone, any ideas, please?
On 23/06/13 16:56, MRH wrote:
Hi,
I have a problem with grub2.
Recently (after updating to wheezy) grub has been upgraded to
grub2. All
fine and well, but it started long floppy seek at the boot,
which is
sort of
The Sunday 23 June 2013 17:56:22, MRH wrote :
> Hi,
>
Hi,
Go to bios and bisable the floppy there, should do the trick.
Thierry
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On 23/06/13 16:56, MRH wrote:
Hi,
I have a problem with grub2.
Recently (after updating to wheezy) grub has been upgraded to grub2. All
fine and well, but it started long floppy seek at the boot, which is
sort of annoying, as
Hi,
I have a problem with grub2.
Recently (after updating to wheezy) grub has been upgraded to grub2. All
fine and well, but it started long floppy seek at the boot, which is
sort of annoying, as it's a home PC, switched on every day. I tried
looking for solution, but I could not
Am Samstag, 8. Juni 2013 schrieb alex.pad...@laposte.net:
> Hi,
>
> I have a bugg with fsck and I can't repare the file system of my hard disk.
> Do you know an LINUX on floppy with a boot to repare my file system.
> Thanks
> Regards
>
> Alex
Hi Alex,
try Trinux
Hi,
I have a bugg with fsck and I can't repare the file system of my hard disk.
Do you know an LINUX on floppy with a boot to repare my file system.
Thanks
Regards
Alex
On Thu 08 Nov 2012 at 10:39:45 -0500, Tom H wrote:
> grub-install has "--no-floppy" and "--allow-floppy" options so
> installing grub to a floppy should be possible.
Neither option really has any bearing on installing GRUB to a floppy.
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off the CD and we have to do it all over again.
Ok, your BIOS is uncooperative. This is almost the same siyuation as
having a BIOS which cannot boot a CD/DVD.
> I want to declare a truce and put a floppy in that will
> call the CD. I think this can be done but all the documentation
>
ot off the CD and we have to do it all over again.
>
> I want to declare a truce and put a floppy in that will
> call the CD. I think this can be done but all the documentation
> I find is either very narrowly targetted or doesn't explain
> the why of grub-install well en
Tom Grace writes:
> I'm not sure about that, but you might have an easier time customizing
> an existing cdrom chainloading floppy image.
I will look some more because I was more or less leaning
that way.
> I found http://schierlm.users.sourceforge.net/bootdisk/ and you m
On Thursday 08 November 2012 14:13:56 Martin McCormick wrote:
> Where are some linear English sentences that de mystify what we
> can get grub-install to do?
+1
Lisi
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On 08/11/12 14:13, Martin McCormick wrote:
> Should this work?
Yes, it should be possible.
> Where are some linear English sentences that de mystify what we
> can get grub-install to do?
>
I'm not sure about that, but you might have an easier time customizing
an existing cdrom ch
to CMOS setup and reorder the boot sequence and
then save. If you only have to do that once per computer, it is
tolerable but eventually, this otherwise functional computer
won't boot off the CD and we have to do it all over again.
I want to declare a truce and put a floppy in that
On 11/06/2012 10:51 AM, Martin McCormick wrote:
Is there any utility that will move the heads on a
floppy drive from one stop to the other? I needed to write a
floppy on an old system and discovered that the drive's head
moving hardware has gotten stiff with disuse. It gets bette
On 11/6/2012 11:34 AM, Martin McCormick wrote:
> Stan Hoeppner writes:
>> #!/bin/bash
>> count=0
>> while [ $count -le 100 ]; do
>>dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null count=1 skip=1
>>dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null count=1 skip=2940
>>let count=count+1
>> done
>
> Thanks! That appears to be doing
Stan Hoeppner writes:
> #!/bin/bash
> count=0
> while [ $count -le 100 ]; do
>dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null count=1 skip=1
>dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null count=1 skip=2940
>let count=count+1
> done
Thanks! That appears to be doing the job. Time will tell if it
frees it up.
Martin
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On 11/6/2012 9:51 AM, Martin McCormick wrote:
> Is there any utility that will move the heads on a
> floppy drive from one stop to the other? I needed to write a
> floppy on an old system and discovered that the drive's head
> moving hardware has gotten stiff with disuse. I
mechanism frees up or just gets stuck.
I bet it has been over ten years since this drive ever saw a
floppy.
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On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 09:51:59AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> Is there any utility that will move the heads on a
> floppy drive from one stop to the other? I needed to write a
> floppy on an old system and discovered that the drive's head
> moving hardware has gotten
Is there any utility that will move the heads on a
floppy drive from one stop to the other? I needed to write a
floppy on an old system and discovered that the drive's head
moving hardware has gotten stiff with disuse. It gets better the
more I do something like dd if=/dev/fd0 of=som
ying to we lost
the full meaning of your words ;-(
> Script done on Sun 17 Jun 2012 10:45:00 AM EDT
> That last line is strange since I did not erase /etc/mtools.conf and
> mtoolstest also reports finding the floppy drive and several others.
> I'm guessing what may need do
the floppy drive and several others. I'm
guessing what may need doing is to copy the configuration mtoolstest
generates for the floppy into /etc/mtools.conf on a drive a: section.
Jude
<http://www.shellworld.net/~
t; init A: could not read boot sector
> Cannot initialize 'A:'
> jude@stmarys:~$ exit
> exit
So you have a floppy disk inserted into the drive and you can't read it.
Some questions:
1/ Does it work under windows?
2/ Can you make a raw copy for its content?
3/ How old is it
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:19:31 -0400 (EDT), Tomas Kral wrote:
>
> Not sure if I am quite in the subject.
>
> But in the old Potato days, the installer always asked to stick in a
> floppy disk to write a new MBR on it. Leaving hard drive untouched.
The maintainer scripts for kernel
udisks --inhibit-polling /dev/fd0
> > Inhibit polling failed: Media detection cannot be inhibited
> >
> > Floppy polling cannot be inhibited as it seems.
> >
> > I looked for a user configuration file, could not find any
> > There is only a rule file
annot be inhibited
>
> Floppy polling cannot be inhibited as it seems.
>
> I looked for a user configuration file, could not find any
> There is only a rule file /lib/udev/rules.d/80-udisks.rules
>
> Where in, floppy is set as,
> ...
> # PC floppy drives
> #
> KERNEL==&q
to temporarily
> disable polling by the udisks daemon while you run older software
> that is incompatible with the udisks behavior
Just finding my way around with udisks.
Read man pages, but I could not find any docs in /usr/share/doc/udisks
tcat@lynx:~$ udisks --inhibit-polling /dev/fd0
Inh
[CC'ed as per request]
Charlie Derr:
>
> mount: special device /dev/fd0 does not exist
Your friend probably needs to load the 'floppy' module manually. To make
the system auto-load it on boot, just add a line containing 'floppy' to
/etc/modules.
J.
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> Why not download mtools and then try mdir a:/ and then try man mtools?
> Even if floppy disks were inserted after booting I've been able to
> access them using mtools in the past.
Than
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 22:21:13 -0500 (EST)
>> No, the data is intact, as the mounting of the image file with
>> the loop option confirms. Also, further experimentation seems
>> to suggest that if the floppy disk is physically mounted in the
>> floppy drive during boot, then I
Why not download mtools and then try mdir a:/ and then try man mtools?
Even if floppy disks were inserted after booting I've been able to
access them using mtools in the past.
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
> Bob, Camaleon, Dom, Stephen, Tom & others,
>
> I
of the image file with
> the loop option confirms. Also, further experimentation seems
> to suggest that if the floppy disk is physically mounted in the
> floppy drive during boot, then I can logically mount it with the
> mount command after boot. This really is looking like a bug.
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:54:02 -0500 (EST), Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Stephen Powell put forth on 3/12/2011 8:30 AM:
>>
>> I have to admit that tops my story. But I think I can do better.
>> I once tore up the wall of my living room trying to find an
>> electrical problem, only to discover that the rea
Stephen Powell put forth on 3/12/2011 8:30 AM:
> I have to admit that tops my story. But I think I can do better.
> I once tore up the wall of my living room trying to find an
> electrical problem, only to discover that the reason that the
> electrical outlet wouldn't work was that it was a switc
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:11:49 -0500 (EST), Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 02/25/2011 06:49 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> ...
>> I have found the culprit: it was a bad floppy disk! The media was
>> physically defective and was causing I/O errors. Once I put a good
>> floppy in
On 02/25/2011 06:49 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
[snip]
I have found the culprit: it was a bad floppy disk! The media was
physically defective and was causing I/O errors. Once I put a good
floppy in it, everything worked fine. How embarrassing! Thanks to
all who replied, and sorry for the
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:07:27 -0500 (EST), Dom wrote:
> On 25/02/11 02:32, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> ...
>> Does anyone, anywhere, have a working USB
>> floppy drive under Debian Squeeze? If so, I'd like to know about
>> it, and what you did to get it working.
&
On 25/02/11 02:32, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:47:30 -0500 (EST), Wayne Topa wrote:
Not having a usb floppy I am just throwing this out there
Have you installed the ufiformat package? A search of the package
lists only show that (might) be helpful.
Thanks for the
I, actually, used unetbootin and squeeze live cd and it worked great
for me. Just make sure to format the usb fat32 before using
unetbootin.
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:47:30 -0500 (EST), Wayne Topa wrote:
>>
>> Not having a
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:47:30 -0500 (EST), Wayne Topa wrote:
>
> Not having a usb floppy I am just throwing this out there
>
> Have you installed the ufiformat package? A search of the package
> lists only show that (might) be helpful.
Thanks for the suggestion, Wayne, but
On 02/23/2011 07:27 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
I have recently install Debian Squeeze on an IBM ThinkPad X31. It has
an external USB-attached floppy drive. The BIOS sees it. I can boot
from it just fine, and when running Windows 95 in MS-DOS mode (no WIN.EXE
running) I can access it as drive
I have recently install Debian Squeeze on an IBM ThinkPad X31. It has
an external USB-attached floppy drive. The BIOS sees it. I can boot
from it just fine, and when running Windows 95 in MS-DOS mode (no WIN.EXE
running) I can access it as drive "A:". I used the FORMAT command of
Win
ot
>>> run with root privileges, it can't mess me up.
>>
>> was to keep the above lines in "/etc/fstab" and mount floppies with
>> "udisks --mount /dev/fdX".
>
> That works, Tom. Thanks! And of course the corresponding
>
> udisks --
dev/fdX". Since Ubuntu's based on a mix of testing
> and unstable and uses the Debian udisks package without "ubuntufying"
> it...
That works, Tom. Thanks! And of course the corresponding
udisks --unmount /dev/fdX
command unmounts the floppy. It appears that udisks
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:11:40 -0500 (EST), Stephen Powell wrote:
>>
>> I don't know. My computer does not have a USB floppy drive, that's true.
>> It is a traditional AT-style floppy disk controller with two
On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:11:40 -0500 (EST), Stephen Powell wrote:
>
> I don't know. My computer does not have a USB floppy drive, that's true.
> It is a traditional AT-style floppy disk controller with two floppy
> drives. And I can no longer reproduce the problem. Having
On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:35:25 -0500 (EST), Dom wrote:
>
> Found the culprit. It's udisks-daemon and appears to be this bug:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=592719
> "udisks prevents mounting of floppy disks".
>
> Killing the udisks-dae
actly a newbie. I've been using Linux for more than
10 years. But I must be doing something wrong. I can't seem to get a
floppy disk to mount.
...
Weird :-?
I would try with the simplest command:
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
If you get no error, run "mount" to ensure your floppy has
been using Linux for more than
10 years. But I must be doing something wrong. I can't seem to get a
floppy disk to mount.
...
Weird :-?
I would try with the simplest command:
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
If you get no error, run "mount" to ensure your floppy has been
mounted. Also, check for &q
count=1
>> It successfully reads the boot sector into the file erase.me; so the
>> drive and the disk itself seem to be OK.
>
> Since you can read the disk try reading the entirety of the floppy
> over to your filesystem. Then try mounting the resulting file using
> the
x for more than
10 years. But I must be doing something wrong. I can't seem to get a
floppy disk to mount.
...
Weird :-?
I would try with the simplest command:
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
If you get no error, run "mount" to ensure your floppy has been
mounted. Also, check for &q
years. But I must be doing something wrong. I can't seem to get a
>>> floppy disk to mount.
>>> ...
>>
>> Weird :-?
>>
>> I would try with the simplest command:
>>
>> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
>>
>> If you get no error, run &q
The only long-
lasting recordable media holds far too little data--think phonograph
records! (Chiseling in rock works too.)
A lot of us--I definitely include myself--have been very sloppy about
caring for floppy media. It doesn't like dust or magnetic fields, for
instance, and I suspect
erase.me; so the
drive and the disk itself seem to be OK.
Since you can read the disk try reading the entirety of the floppy
over to your filesystem. Then try mounting the resulting file using
the loopback device.
mount -o loop,ro /path/to/floppy-image /media/floppy1
Perhaps that will give a
t; drive and the disk itself seem to be OK.
Since you can read the disk try reading the entirety of the floppy
over to your filesystem. Then try mounting the resulting file using
the loopback device.
mount -o loop,ro /path/to/floppy-image /media/floppy1
Perhaps that will give a clue.
>
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:09:52 -0500 (EST), Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:07:20 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> Well, I'm not exactly a newbie. I've been using Linux for more than 10
>> years. But I must be doing something wrong. I can't seem to
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:07:20 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
> Well, I'm not exactly a newbie. I've been using Linux for more than 10
> years. But I must be doing something wrong. I can't seem to get a
> floppy disk to mount.
(...)
Weird :-?
I would try with the simpl
Well, I'm not exactly a newbie. I've been using Linux for more than 10 years.
But I must be doing something wrong. I can't seem to get a floppy disk to
mount.
My i386 system has a standard floppy disk controller with two floppy drives:
a 3.5-inch high density drive (1.44M in DO
Tong,
Do you actually have a floppy drive (and media) that can handle 8
megabytes? That seems rather unlikely, as the standard 3 1/2" (iirc)
floppy is 1.44 MB.
Randy Kramer
On Monday 21 June 2010 11:01:33 am T o n g wrote:
> Does anyone has positive experience with KVM using non-
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