it's /dev/fd0, not /dev/floppy. -Mark
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, David Hummel wrote: > 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 > -- Mark K. Kim http://www.cbreak.org/ PGP key available on the website PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E 5167 6822 94F0 F298 5DCE _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
