How to copy onto floppy?

[KRC]

I have a problem with my xwindow system and only have the command line available. I need to backup some files to floppy but have never copied files/directories to the floppy drive using the command line before. Someone want to clue me in. I know how to move/copy files and directories around on the hardrive but cannot figure out the floppy. I have Red Hat 7.1

[ 25 January 2002: Message edited by: KRC ]

[sarah31]

I may be wrong, but wouldn't it be :

cp <file> /floppy (or /dev/floppy)?

[scanez]

I think RedHat mounts the floppy drive in /mnt/floppy default. So put the floppy in, run mount /dev/fd0, and then

cp filename /mnt/floppy

Then when you are done,

umount /dev/fd0

You may have to specify the filesystem on the floppy, doing so by

mount -t type /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

valid types are ext2, vfat (for windows 95/98), ntfs (for win2k), etc..

[sarah31]

are we the only ones posting in this catagory now scanez? did I scare everyone away? are we missing some big event like the moon crashing into the earth. It has been really really quiet around here since tuesday :confused:

[KRC]

Sweet success. Thanks for the help.

[sarah31]

Excellent! scanez is really helpful. Me I try but I still am in the learning stage ;)

[scanez]

Bah! Everyone who tries is helpful...everyone else is just posting invisible messages ;)...or haven't been around in a bit :)

Let the helping continue!