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On 20 Mar 1997, Bill Haygood wrote:

bill>Xavi (netto@redestb.es) wrote:
bill>: Hi folks,
bill>
bill>: anyone can get stuff copied inside a floppy disk with UNIX & system files
bill>: to ms-dos format???. Obviously I have linux and no unix. Thanks in advance.

Did you said you have Linux and no Unix?  Must not be the same Linux that
I am using, which is definetly an Unix system.

bill>
bill>If you use Caldera, from root, you can mount an MS-DOS floppy.  I have an 
bill>empty directory called '/a' onto which I make the mount.  On my system, 
bill>the following does the trick:
bill>
bill>     mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /a
bill>
bill>Then you can read from or write to the MS-DOS floppy.  This presupposes, 
bill>of course, that your kernel has support for the MS-DOS file system.

My Goodness!  Caldera must be a really bad distribution if it
requires you to do all this mess!!! If this is the case, you
also have to unmount the floppies.  Way too much trouble.

Use mtools instead.  This will allow you to copy things to and from
the floppy, check it, even format it, as a normal user and without
having to go through the mount/unmount rutine.  Slackware, RedHat,
and Debian install mtools by default.

Check out these commands:

# Check the directory listing of drive A:
mdir a:

# Copy the file A:\DISKFILE.EXT to ~/unix-file.ext
mcopy a:diskfile.ext ~/unix-file.ext

# Copy the file ~/unixfile.ext to drive B:
mcopy ~/unixfile.ext b:

# Change current directory to A:\BAK
mcd a:/bak

# Copy the file ~/unixfile.bak to A:\BAK\DISKFILE.BAK
mcopy ~/unixfile.bak a:diskfile.bak

# Format the diskette in drive B:
mformat b:

Simple, don't you think?

Victor Rivarola

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