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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!feeder.chicago.cic.net!chi-news.cic.net!news.synet.net!taz@synet.net From: JD Thomlinson <jthom@synet.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: kudos & need help w. floppy tape & ft Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 23:43:55 -0500 Organization: Synet Internet Solutions Lines: 22 Message-ID: <337FDA8B.1839@synet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 168.113.1.6 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41114 With all the publicity on linux (and as a user thereof) I am very pleasantly suprised with FBSD 2.2.1. Hats off to the dev team! Things are a bit different in some areas and I could use some help. I'd like to use my conner 250 with FBSD 2.2.1.... Is there a raw device for floppy tape that mt will talk to? Is it possible to build one? Is there any more information on ft other than the single, short (and I mean brief) man page? I tried locating the source for ft, and it doesn't seem to exist on any mirror. Is there a suggested procedure for creating a boot/root emergency disk set? If it's a hand-job ;-) with dd, any doc with a cookbook approach. I trashed my initial install and had to re-install the minimum to get tools to fix the partition I messed up. Thankfully sysinstall respected all my previously installed files. Again good work! Best Regards, JohnT