[vox-tech] Formating problem

2003-09-22 Thread Walther The Writer
Hi all, Just copied a text file from my Linux to the floppy. After trying to open the file on my Windows 2000 machine it says that floppy isn't formatted. Previously, I have copied a couple of files in windows and I had no problem to see them in Linux. Any suggestions? Walther.

Re: [vox-tech] Formating problem

2003-09-22 Thread Mark K. Kim
Format it under Windows, THEN copy a file to it from Linux, then transfer the disk back to Windows. -Mark On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Walther The Writer wrote: Hi all, Just copied a text file from my Linux to the floppy. After trying to open the file on my Windows 2000 machine it says that floppy

Re: [vox-tech] Formating problem

2003-09-22 Thread Walther The Writer
Mark, That is exactly how it was done, but... Walther. Format it under Windows, THEN copy a file to it from Linux, then transfer the disk back to Windows. -Mark On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Walther The Writer wrote: Hi all, Just copied a text file from my Linux to the floppy. After trying to

Re: [vox-tech] Formating problem

2003-09-22 Thread p
the zeroth order approximation to why is that linux can read floppies formatted under windows, but windows can't read floppies formatted under linux. the first order approximation involves filesystem types. pete On Mon 22 Sep 03, 4:43 PM, Mark K. Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Format it under

Re: [vox-tech] Formating problem

2003-09-22 Thread David Hummel
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:43:53PM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Walther The Writer wrote: What day is it? Just copied a text file from my Linux to the floppy. After trying to open the file on my Windows 2000 machine it says that floppy isn't formatted. Previously, I

Re: [vox-tech] Formating problem

2003-09-22 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 03:47:14AM -0800, Walther The Writer wrote: Mark, That is exactly how it was done, but... How did you mount the floppy (if at all)? How did you copy the file? Persoanlly, I usually use MTools for stuff like this: $ mcopy file.txt a: However, it'd be reasonable to

Re: [vox-tech] Formating problem

2003-09-22 Thread Mark K. Kim
it's /dev/fd0, not /dev/floppy. -Mark On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, David Hummel wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:43:53PM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Walther The Writer wrote: What day is it? Just copied a text file from my Linux to the floppy. After trying to open the

Re: [vox-tech] Formating problem

2003-09-22 Thread Rod Roark
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 04:47 am, Walther The Writer wrote: Mark, That is exactly how it was done, but... You didn't say what method you used to copy. I always use mcopy for this. If you mount and cp and then forget to umount before removing the floppy, bad things will happen. There's

Re: [vox-tech] Formating problem

2003-09-22 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:59:25PM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote: it's /dev/fd0, not /dev/floppy. It's probably dependent on distro, actually. Sometimes they symlink for 'friendliness,' for example. -bill! ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [vox-tech] Formating problem

2003-09-22 Thread Walther The Writer
I didn't mount floppy. What I did was cp name_of_the_file.txt /dev/fd0 sould I mount it first? Walther.. How did you mount the floppy (if at all)? How did you copy the file? Persoanlly, I usually use MTools for stuff like this: $ mcopy file.txt a: However, it'd be reasonable to do the

Re: [vox-tech] Formating problem

2003-09-22 Thread Mark K. Kim
Yes. Or use mcopy. -Mark On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Walther The Writer wrote: I didn't mount floppy. What I did was cp name_of_the_file.txt /dev/fd0 sould I mount it first? Walther.. How did you mount the floppy (if at all)? How did you copy the file? Persoanlly, I usually use MTools for