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3Com CS/2500 - Formatting Diskettes Without the Copy Command

3Com CS/2500
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Booting from Diskette 3-5
6 Wait about five seconds, then press the Return key on the console
keyboard.
The monitor greeting appears, followed by the monitor prompt (>):
3Com Corporation CS/2000 Series Monitor
>
7 Enter the soft reset command:
k
8 To copy a diskette, enter the copy command:
co
The following message appears:
Copy diskettes must be formatted
Type f to format your diskettes now
Any other key to continue with copy:
9 If you have already formatted a destination diskette on the
communications server, press any key to start the copy and proceed to
step 12. If you need to format a diskette, type
f
. The following prompt
appears:
Insert diskette to be formatted
Enter the density to begin formatting operation
Escape to abort the format
Return to use default density (2Mb):
You can also format diskettes without the copy command. Refer to
“Formatting Diskettes without the Copy Command” on page 3-6.
10 Insert a blank 2 MB (high-density) diskette (1.44 MB formatted). (Make
sure that the diskette is not write-protected.)
11 Type
2
or press the Return key to begin the format.
The server formats your diskette. When it finishes, the following
prompt appears:
Format another diskette (y/n):
To format another diskette, type
y
. To continue with the copy
procedure, type
n
. The following prompt appears:
insert master and hit return to continue
CS2500BookFile : Startup Page 5 Thursday, December 11, 1997 10:44 AM

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