From: bcwood@pacbell.net
Subject: 2 floppy HOW-TO
Newsgroups: floppyfw.general
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 16:23:29 -0800
Organization: Hyssing.net
Reply-To: bcwood@pacbell.net

Hello All:

I hope I dont irritate anyone with thisduplicate post, but yesterday I
had meant to post this on a new thread so someone may not miss it.  If
people want to use 2 floppies with floppyfw, here is a really simple way
to do it.  Hopefully there aren't too many bugs.

  1.  Add a line to the config file

      USE_2FLOPPY=y

  2.  Put whatever you are going to use onto the second floppy, possibly
into a
      /packages directory.

  3.  Edit /floppyfw/floppyfw.ini and add some lines below the ".
/etc/config" ,
      probably after the packages and pre scripts, and just before the
"adding modules"
      section; like this:

      if [ ${USE_2FLOPPY} = 'y' ]; then
         mkdir /mnt/floppy2
         mount -t vfat /dev/fd1 /mnt/floppy2

         echo -n "Looking for extra packages: "
         for i in /mnt/floppy2/packages/*.bz2; do
           if test -f $i
           then
              echo -n "$i "
              bzip2 ${BZIP} -d < $i | untar
           fi
         done

         echo "Looking for pre- scripts on 2nd floppy"

         for i in /mnt/floppy2/packages/pre-*.ini; do
           if test -f $i
           then
              PRE=${i#/mnt/floppy2/packages}
              tr -d '\r' < $i > /etc/$PRE
              echo $PRE
              chmod 755 /etc/$PRE
              /etc/$PRE
           fi
         done
         echo "2nd floppy scripts done."
       fi

  4.  Add some lines below the `echo "...scripts done." '

       if [ ${USE_2FLOPPY} = 'y' ]; then
          echo "Looking for post- scripts on 2nd floppy"
          for i in /mnt/floppy2/packages/post-*.ini; do
            if test -f $i
            then
              POST=${i#/mnt/floppy2/packages}
              tr -d '\r' < $i > /etc/$POST
              echo $POST
              chmod 755 /etc/$POST
              /etc/$POST
            fi
          done
          echo "2nd floppy scripts done."

          umount /mnt/floppy2
          rm -r /mnt/floppy2
       fi


       I hope this helps some people be able to get more fun services
from their
       machines.  Playing around and tweaking these things can be very
enjoyable.
       Please don't flame me for any errors I no doubt made here, I
winged it with a
       little cutting and pasting.  You can add higher density floppy
devices with mknod
       if you need to, there's no reason not to be able to use 1680k
floppies for this.
       (use /dev/fd1u1680 or whatever in the mount command)  The
limiting factor is
       going to be the 3 meg RAM disk.  I have filled mine several times
while trying
       things out.

       Brad