Re: floppy

[John Sheahan <jrsheahan-at-optushome.com.au>]

On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 07:24:59AM -0400, Paul wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Dave
> 
> The mtools package is included in the BDI, but not installed by default. For 
> just copying files to floppy to transfer to another machine, the cp command 
> will suffice. Virtually all floppy disks come preformatted as DOS floppies 
> anyway.

mtools is probably a useful one to install by default in the circumstances.

> 
> I would suggest Gene uses the following steps :-
> 
> mount /mnt/floppy
> cp /usr/local/emc/emc.ini /mnt/floppy/emc.ini
> umount /mnt/floppy
> 

without mtools installed,  the above is the go.


> If this is on a BDI install, the mount and umount commands can be skipped as 
> the kernel automatically mounts/unmounts removable media.
> 

how does the kernel flush buffers after the floppy is ejected?
Wish it worked like that on my usb flash cards. 
john


> Regards, Paul.
> 
> 
> On Sunday 07 Jul 2002 7:30 am, Dave Hylands wrote:
> > I don't know if mcopy/mdir are included in the BDI install or not. The nice
> > thing is you don't need to mount/unmount anything.