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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!fdn.fr!r2d2.fdn.org!sphynx.fdn.fr!causse From: causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (Philippe Causse) Subject: Re: kudos & need help w. floppy tape & ft X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: individual - paris - france Message-ID: <EAF6Ex.Gz@sphynx.fdn.fr> References: <337FDA8B.1839@synet.net> Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 08:32:57 GMT Lines: 53 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41129 JD Thomlinson (jthom@synet.net) wrote: : With all the publicity on linux (and as a user thereof) : I am very pleasantly suprised with FBSD 2.2.1. Hats off : to the dev team! Things are a bit different in some areas : and I could use some help. : I'd like to use my conner 250 with FBSD 2.2.1.... : Is there a raw device for floppy tape that mt will talk to? Yes, /dev/rft0 is the `raw' device while /dev/ft0 is the block one. : Is it possible to build one? Sure! # cd /dev # sh MAKEDEV ft0 will do the job... : Is there any more information on ft other than the single, : short (and I mean brief) man page? I tried locating the : source for ft, and it doesn't seem to exist on any mirror. Probably, your locate database was not up to date. Run the /etc/weekly script to fix that... # sh /etc/weekly (takes a while) Then: # locate /ft/ /usr/src/sbin/i386/ft/ft.8 /usr/src/sbin/i386/ft/ft.c (etc...) Which reads that the source for "ft" is in /usr/src/sbin/i386/ft. : Is there a suggested procedure for creating a boot/root : emergency disk set? If it's a hand-job ;-) with dd, any What I do in such circumstances is use the "fixit" floppy which provides minimal tools for the job. Of course, you need no know how to use "ed", "disklabel" and "restore" to be successful. You should probably use the "fixit" floppy as a starting point, and if you have two floppy drives add the set of tools you need on the second floppy. It's the easiest solution :-0 : doc with a cookbook approach. I trashed my initial install : and had to re-install the minimum to get tools to fix the : partition I messed up. Thankfully sysinstall respected all : my previously installed files. Again good work! : Best Regards, JohnT Cheers, Philippe. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- P. Causse http://www.fdn.fr/~pcausse 4.4BSD/X11R6/Motif-2.0/C++ mailto:causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (UUCP)