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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: UNIX filesystems on Sun SPARCstation floppy disks
Message-ID: <NSXA7K9@xds13.ferranti.com>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
References: <1991Apr18.174329@quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 91 16:27:23 GMT

In article <1991Apr18.174329@quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov> karl@quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov (Karl Anderson) writes:
> I know this has been discussed, but I missed it.  What I want to know
> is, can 3-1/2" floppy disks with UNIX filesystems on them be mounted,

I'd like to know this, too. Information on how to format and mkfs them
would be nice as well... I didn't even get that far. We had a MOTIF
installation blow away /usr/lib, so blowing away the C runtime shared
library. The only things that worked were mount and fsck, so I was
goint to mount a floppy on top of /usr/lib so we could at least get
up far enough to fix things! No luck.

I have no problem with this sort of stuff on System V based systems,
but this SunOS/BSD stuff was like going back into the dark ages of
Version 7, back when none of these programs would figure the defaults
for you...
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