Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: UNIX filesystems on Sun SPARCstation floppy disks Message-ID: Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <1991Apr18.174329@quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 91 16:27:23 GMT In article <1991Apr18.174329@quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov> karl@quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov (Karl Anderson) writes: > I know this has been discussed, but I missed it. What I want to know > is, can 3-1/2" floppy disks with UNIX filesystems on them be mounted, I'd like to know this, too. Information on how to format and mkfs them would be nice as well... I didn't even get that far. We had a MOTIF installation blow away /usr/lib, so blowing away the C runtime shared library. The only things that worked were mount and fsck, so I was goint to mount a floppy on top of /usr/lib so we could at least get up far enough to fix things! No luck. I have no problem with this sort of stuff on System V based systems, but this SunOS/BSD stuff was like going back into the dark ages of Version 7, back when none of these programs would figure the defaults for you... -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"