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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: fdformat & mount simple question Date: 16 Jan 1996 10:53:57 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4dg045$gtb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4d04qn$37t@gol2.gol.com> <4d0s3m$qb9@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <DL3zAw.74u@seeware.dialix.oz.au> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon) writes: > dump 0uf /dev/rfd0.1440 > > Dump will prompt you to change floppies whenever needed. Really? I thought the long-standing EOF detection bug in the floppy driver would make dump `think' a fatal error happened. Anyway, it's always possible to force dump into any other media size: dump 0uBf 1440 /dev/rfd0.1440 /filesystem -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)