On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 09:05:52PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 11:00:35AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> > Can I use dd to copy an *.exe file from ~/ to my floppy;
> > then have present the file to a:\ under DOG?
>
> No. If you use dd you'll screw up the floppy's "filesystem". Just mount
> the floppy with 'mount -t msdosfs /dev/fd0 <mountpoint>' and copy the
> file, or use mcopy from the mtools port.
>
Thanks, gents. I guess I'm being lazy, not wanting to
install mtools--since, AFAIK, fdformat does a DOS-like
format. mtools does work, tho... .
gary
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