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(A248) [V] m33-222-10 floppy drive
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Sorry, I should have cc'd this earlier!
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Subject: Using floppies on a Maxine
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 92 13:38:12 EDT
Hi John!
Ok, here's the scoop:
When using a DEC RX26K floppy (4.0M) -- you can tell because there
will be 'ED' printed in white on the disk,
to format:
fddisk -fmt /dev/rfd0a
OR (if you're reformatting a diskette)
fddisk -fmt -f /dev/rfd0a (I suppose the -f means 'force')
To write, you can either:
dd if=/etc/athena/rc.conf of=/dev/rfd0a
tar cvf /dev/rfd0a /etc/athena/rc.conf
To read:
dd if=/dev/rfd0a | more (assuming you used dd to write)
tar tvf /dev/rfd0a (assuming you used tar -- note this will only do a
kind of 'ls' on that tar file)
I initially used vmunix to copy to the disk, but since it isn't text,
you can't tell if its a good copy.
You can do other stuff to /dev/rfd0a, like fsck'ing and other stuff you
would normally do to a hard drive.....
Hope this helps...
-y
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