How To Use Fdformat To Format A New Diskette - Sun Microsystems Enterprise 250 Owner's Manual

How to Remove a Diskette From Its
Drive
Before You Begin
If your system is a server set up without a local console, you need to set up a
console on it in order to issue software commands. See "About Setting Up a
Console" on page 49.
What to Do
1. From the console device, type eject
The operating system unmounts the file system on the diskette.
2. Press the Eject button on the front of the diskette drive.
The diskette unseats itself and pops halfway out of the drive. Pull it from the
diskette drive.
How to Use fdformat to Format a
New Diskette
Before You Begin
You must format new diskettes before you use them. The simplest way to format, list
the contents of, read, copy, or eject a diskette is to use the File Manager tool. Refer to
Solaris User's Guide for information about File Manager.
If the server is set up without a local console, you need to set up a console on it in
order to issue software commands; see:
4 "About Setting Up a Console" on page 49
If the diskette is write-protected, you need to remove the write protection; see:
4 "How to Allow Writing to a Diskette" on page 215
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Using Storage Devices