On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:43:53PM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Walther The Writer wrote:
What day is it? > > Just copied a text file from my Linux to the floppy. After trying to > > open the file on my Windows 2000 machine it says that floppy isn't > > formatted. Previously, I have copied a couple of files in windows > > and I had no problem to see them in Linux. Any suggestions? > > Format it under Windows, THEN copy a file to it from Linux, then > transfer the disk back to Windows. This shouldn't be necessary. Do the following: fdformat /dev/floppy mkdosfs /dev/floppy and you should have no problems reading files from the disk in Linux or Windows (except for the obvious CRLF problem -> dos2unix/unix2dos). David Hummel Genomics & Gene Discovery WRRC/ARS/USDA _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
