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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!news.dfn.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!not-for-mail From: thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Gellekum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What filesystem on floppies ?? Date: 28 Sep 1995 09:20:51 GMT Organization: <this space intentionally left blank> Lines: 16 Message-ID: <44dpdj$67c@news.rwth-aachen.de> References: <44dk5h$ar7@neptune.ethz.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950726BETA PL0] Patrick C. Walther (pwalther) wrote: > Hey, > Ihave installed FreeBSD on my portable 486. As I don't have any access to the > Net from that computer, I have to install everything with floppies. I can get > all the stuff from the Internet on a sparcstation. > Now what is the best way to write and read the things to/from the floppies? > Do I really need to format them for MS-DOS or is there a better way? I mostly use tar. Simply `tar cvf /dev/rfd1 <files>'. Appending does work, and so does writing to multiple floppies (as long as you use the raw device). If you have to use the MS-DOS format, don't `mount -t msdos' the floppies; use the mtools instead. tg