HOW TO MOUNT FLOPPIES UNDER UNIX

 

So you’ve just come back from (X)-frame release party, your groggy, and your mind is regurgitating all sorts of foreign languages, someone’s mouth is farting all kinds of quackintosh about how apples can talk to one another, and to top it off you find yourself in a place called High Wycombe. Just then a email comes beeping into Outlook, subject line "Local Devices not checked on (X)-frame" with high priority set on it. All of the sudden you realize you have lost your idenity because you can’t remember how to mount that floppy on your legacy system. You wonder is this a conspiracy to complicate things or indeed has MicroSoft shrink wrapped our brains, your about to run to the hills when you remember- hey READ the FAQ!

 

Mount the diskette manually by typing:

mkdir /cdrom

mount –t cdfs –o noversion /dev/device /cdrom

where device is the diskette device name, which will be configuration dependant. A typical diskette device name is rz4c.

Mount the diskette manually by typing:

mkdir /floppy

mount –r –t cdrfs /dev/device /cdrom

where the device is the diskette device name which will depend on the SCSI address; for example, dsk/c201d0s0 for SCSI address 0. If you do not know you diskette device name, use sam to mount it instead (refer to the HP manual for sam)

If you are running vold ( Solaris 2.2 or later ), the diskette will mount automatically as /floppy. If the diskette does not mount, mount it manually by typing:

SunOS ( Solaris 1.1.1/1.1.2 ):

mount –r –t hsfs /dev/device /cdrom

Solaris 2.3/2.4:

mount –r –F cdrfs /dev/device /cdrom

where device will normally be sr0.

Mount the Floppy by typing:

mount –V jfs –r /dev/fd0 directory

where directory is the mount directory. For example:

mount –V jfs –r /dev/fd0 /mnt

You may get the following warning: mount: warning: the permissions on directory are incompatible with the permissions in the root directory of /dev/fd0

This is not an error and can be ignored.