I need some help

A. Rosenberger andreas at gphsrv1.geophyS2.uni-bremen.de
Wed Nov 20 07:00:00 EST 1996



SUN-workstations equipped with a diskette drive running
under Solaris2.x are able to read DOS-Floppys.

The way to access the floppy depends on how your 
workstation is setup.

If the volume-manager is running (default installation)
you should have a menu-option in the filemanager "check
for floppy". Hit that button after inserting the floppy
and a new filmanager will pop up allowing you to access 
the files on the floppy.

If there is no volume-manager running on your system things
get more complicated:

-you should have a device-file /dev/diskette on your system
and a mount-point for the floppy-filesystem like /floppy
or /diskette.

do:
  mount -F pcfs /dev/diskette /diskette

If this was successful you should be able to do a
"cd /diskette; ls -la " and access your files.

Relevant man-pages are: 
man pcfs
man mount

Hope this helps

Andreas





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