Home
Developer Resources
QNX RTOS v4
QNX RTOS v4 Knowledge Base

QNX RTOS v4 Knowledge Base

Foundry27
Foundry27
QNX RTOS v4 project
Resources

QNX RTOS v4 Knowledge Base

Title How to get large files onto a machine with only a floppy drive.
Ref. No. QNX.000009985
Category(ies) Utilities
Issue My computer only has a floppy drive and a harddrive.  My network services are down
and I need to put a file on my computer that is more than 1.44M.
How do I get the file on my computer?
Solution Make sure floppy is running -- Fsys.floppy

format the disks for qnx -- fdformat -s1.44M /dev/fd0

put file on disks -- pax -wv [filename] | freeze | vol -wv /dev/fd0

expand file on to QNX box -- vol -rv /dev/fd0 | melt | pax -rv