Summary mounting a floppy

From: Joe LaCascio <jlacasci_at_wheatonma.edu>
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 14:17:33 -0400 (EDT)

Here's the answer that finally worked. Thanks to all of you,
I now have a list of ways to access msdos file on 5.0a on a
floppy as well.

Thanks to Lucien Hercaud and Emmanuel Bove

Step by Step :
# /sbin/fddisk -fmt -f /dev/rdisk/floppy0a
NOTE: Setting interleave factor to ``-i2:4''.
       Use ``-i<nnn>[:<ccc>]'' option to override.
Disk type: 3.50 inch, HD (1.44MB)
Number of sectors per track: 18
Number of surfaces: 2
Number of cylinders: 80
Sector size: 512
interleave factor: 2:4
Formatting disk...
  Percentage complete: Format complete, checking...
 Quick check of disk passes OK.

# disklabel -rw /dev/rdisk/floppy0a

# newfs /dev/rdisk/floppy0a
/dev/rdisk/floppy0a: 2880 sectors in 80 cylinders of 2 tracks, 18 sectors
        1.4MB in 5 cyl groups (16 c/g, 0.28MB/g, 64 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
 32, 640, 1184, 1792, 2336,

# mount /dev/disk/floppy0a /mnt


Thanks again,
Joe
Received on Tue Aug 07 2001 - 18:18:58 NZST

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