Summary: Alphastation floppy disk

From: Tel <Garry>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 02:59:08 +1000

   Hi All,
   
   My question was:
   
> I am installing Tripwire on our Firewall machine, and want to store
> the executable and database on a hardware write protected disk. I want
> to use the floppy that is included on the Alphastation 200 4/166.
>
> Is it possible to format the floppy for ufs? If so, how do you do it?
> I read the man page on fd(7), and this mounts the floppy, but df
> shows:
>
> Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/fd 0 0 0 100% /mnt
>
> Avail 0 is not useful by any means :-)
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
   
   It seems like I did not look hard enough, man -k floppy found fd(7), but
   did not find fddisk (why??)
   
   The answer is:
   
   /sbin/fddisk -fmt -f /dev/rfd0c
   newfs /dev/rfd0c rx23
   mount /dev/fd0c /mnt
   
   Many thanks to Roberto Romani (Hi pal!) <romani_at_stl.dec.com>
   
   --Garry.
      
      
Received on Mon Jan 15 1996 - 07:49:26 NZDT

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