(This problem only happens with ' expand'. in the mcd command will not work correctly. It means that you forgot to run ' volcheck'. If, while using mtools, you get the following error: init: open '/vol/dev/aliases/floppy0': No such file or directory To add the -U flag to the fdformat command, to have the volume

If you're formatting a previously formatted floppy, then you'll probably need Volcheck for you before each mtools command. VFAT filesystem, and can thus read and write long filenames. The current versions of mtools provide the following advantages over using /floppy: See the mtools (1) man page for details on all the commands that make up this package. The other way of doing things is to use mtools, which is a package thatĪllows you to read and write MS-DOS floppy disks. That directory is in fact the floppy disk! Regular unix commands, just cd /floppy/floppy0. To access the floppy contents directly, as a unix file system, with the The ' volcheck' command tells it to recheck the floppy drives. vold does not know when a disk is inserted, nor when you change disks.

There is a program always running, watching the floppy drives, called vold (the volume management daemon. Initializes the directory and file allocation tables. This is because of the way that floppy disks are handled under Solaris 2. Formats the disk in the specified drive to accept DOS files, analyzing the entire disk for defects. There are now two ways to access MS-DOS floppy disks: using the mtools package and directly inside /floppy.įor both methods, run ' volcheck' after inserting the floppy. Note: You cannot access the floppy drive on an Xterminal.

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