Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!racerx!ken From: ken@racerx.UUCP (Ken Hardy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: UNIX filesystems on Sun SPARCstation floppy disks Summary: Worked for me Message-ID: <577@racerx.UUCP> Date: 24 Apr 91 22:24:43 GMT References: <1991Apr18.174329@quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov> Organization: Bridge Information Systems, St. Louis Lines: 25 In article , peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > In article <1991Apr18.174329@quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov> karl@quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov (Karl Anderson) writes: > > 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 This is what I use on a SparcStation 1 with SunOS 4.0.3. Works like a champ: fdformat /etc/mkfs /dev/rfd0c 2880 18 2 8192 1024 16 10 5 2048 t 0 -1 /etc/mount /dev/fd0c /floppy "df /floppy" yields: Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/fd0c 1303 9 1163 1% /floppy I just did this now on a new diskette, so I know it works (here, at least). -- Ken Hardy uunet!racerx!ken Bridge Information Systems ken@racerx.com