From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 21 19:10:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA21476 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 19:10:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from imo19.mx.aol.com (imo19.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA21471 for ; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 19:10:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from CARudeBoy@aol.com) From: CARudeBoy@aol.com Received: from CARudeBoy@aol.com by imo19.mx.aol.com (IMOv16.10) id 1CJSa04573; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 22:08:21 +1900 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 22:08:21 EST To: malartre@aei.ca, jlevy@henry.sandi.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: a few questions Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 214 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a message dated 11/21/98 6:10:32 PM Pacific Standard Time, malartre@aei.ca writes: << Jonathan Levy wrote: > > 1.) I have a dos partion mounted, butit is read-only. How can i get > access to write to it? > 2.)I have a Matsushita CD-ROM drive connected, but FreeBSD won't > recognize it is there. What do I do? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Hi This was one of my previous mail: --------- Assuming that wd0s1 is your first FAT16(32 if you have 2.2.7 or higher) partition, you can execute the mount command has root: # mkdir /dos # chmod 770 /dos # mount -v -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /dos or read only: # mount -rv -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /dos or add it in the /etc/fstab file: /dev/wd0s1 /dos msdos rw 0 0 or read only: /dev/wd0s1 /dos msdos ro 0 0 WARNING: this text may have some error in it. --------- Thank You -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.lowrent.org/freebsd/malartre/] >> What about my second question? 2.)I have a Matsushita CD-ROM drive connected, but FreeBSD won't recognize it is there. What do I do? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message