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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!ogicse!flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU!mundania.CS.ORST.EDU!thorpej From: thorpej@mundania.CS.ORST.EDU (Jason R. Thorpe) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: UFS floppy portability... Message-ID: <2e17peINN2hh@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> Date: 7 Dec 93 06:27:58 GMT Article-I.D.: flop.2e17peINN2hh Organization: Computer Science Department, Oregon State University Lines: 28 NNTP-Posting-Host: mundania.cs.orst.edu Sorry if this is an FAQ...(Perhaps I should download that sucker!) While doing some re-config on my NetBSD box, which, unfortunately, is not connected to a network (I haven't gotten SLIP to work yet), I hosed a few things... My solution: newfs some floppies with ufs (4.2 filesystem) and go down to my office and use the SPARCStation 10 on my desk to get the distreibution stuff... I assumed that since the SPARCStation, which is running SunOS 4.1.3, it would be able to mount the ufs on the floppy...It didn't happen...I didn't try it the other way, but it still should have worked...Has anyone else had this combatibility problem? Are there any quirks about the ufs filesystem that I should be aware of? BTW...I had to resort to using PCFS on the Sun and mounting the floppy as an MSDOS filesystem on the NetBSD box...It worked, but was REALLY slow on the Sun. Any help is appreciated! Later, y'all! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jason R. Thorpe | 'All standard...' | 434 Weatherford Hall OSU Computer Science | thorpej@cs.orst.edu | Corvallis, OR 97331 Support Staff | '...disclaimers apply.' | (503) 737-9533