How to mount a floppy drive?? 2

[CdnMoose]

I am looking for advice on mounting a floppy drive on a Unix Sco system? Any advice is greatly appricated!! I am very weak with the Unix system/OS.

Thanks

Moose

 

[edfair]

Is this a floppy with a filesystem already on it?

I create a separate mount point for floppies, working as root in / I "mkdir fd0"
then still as root "mount /dev/fd0135ds18 /fd0" (floppy #0, double sided, high density)

and once finished move away from /fd0 and "umount fd0"

If the floppy doesn't have a filesystem you create it with "mkdev fd".

You can mount it most anywhere on the filesystem, many people mount it at /mnt.

Ed Fair
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[southbeach]

Like edfair said, you simply need to

1) mkdir /floppy
2) /etc/mount /dev/fd0 /floopy

to reverse the process

1) /etc/umount /floppy

Notice that I am suggesting /dev/fd0 in lieu of /dev/fd0135ds18. I have found that trying to mount to /dev/fd0135ds18 is not always sucessful.

It is worth to mention that you cannot mount a device to an active directory or a directory which is currently mounted or running a process out of. You will get an error to that effect should you attempt to do so. Same goes if you try to un-mount the device, you cannot be within the mounted directory.





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