Re: [IPCop-user] Using USB as a "floppy"

[Tod <lis...@gm...>]

On 8/18/2008 12:21 AM, David W Studeman wrote:
> Sean Rice wrote:
>> Actually, pop your USB disk in and in the GUI backup section click the mount button for the USB device. This will allow you to mount the device and then utilize it to backup to.
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>> Sean
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ipc...@li... [mailto:ipc...@li...] On Behalf Of joe...@pu...
>> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 6:41 PM
>> To: ipc...@li...
>> Subject: [IPCop-user] Using USB as a "floppy"
>>
>> Using floppy to backup certain aspects of IPcop, to copy to a backup machine when need arises.
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>> Well, need arose, only to find the floppy had gone bad.   Now want to use a usb stick in it's place.
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>> I created directory /mnt/usb.
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>> When I do mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb, it tells me unknown filesystem type: "msdos"
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>> Solution?
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>> joe a.
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> 
> You shouldn't try to mount anything. Plug a usb floppy in, go to backup 
> and click on backup to floppy. Treat it exactly the same as you would a 
> built in floppy plugged into a floppy controller. Do not let the extra 
> options distract you as the backup page when it sees a usb device 
> doesn't know the difference between a floppy and a usb stick. On my 
> Raqcop Cobalt project, there is no floppy controller and I do not supply 
> the floppy drivers in the cobalt kernel as they can never be used yet a 
> usb floppy works fine even as it looks as an sda device to the system 
> not a fd0 device. You also do not need to create a backup set first, 
> just click on the floppy backup and go.
> 

This sounds exactly what I'm looking for.  Could you verify that I can 
just as easily recover from the usb 'floppy' drive upon reinstall?  I 
mean is it as easy as putting in the installation cd, waiting for it to 
prompt for the backup floppy, inserting the usb stick, and letting it go?


Thanks - Tod