From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 7 17:35:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2011837B400 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 17:35:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 567FB43E42 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 17:35:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g680Z9uF039247; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 18:35:09 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g680Z9xg039244; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 18:35:09 -0600 (MDT)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 18:35:09 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Ivan Cc: david.and.laura@juno.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: MS-DOS Disks (was Re: Problems with compiling my own kernel) In-Reply-To: <20020708000128.GC2039@fuckface.local.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Ivan wrote: > Just take a floppy disk which was formatted in Windows (it means that > it has FAT as it's file system =) and perform following actions (as > root): > > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt > cp /(whatever dir)/FREEBIE /mnt > umount /mnt There's an easier and safer way: install the mtools port. Then you can do thing like: mcopy FREEBIE a: And you don't have to worry about unmounting the device, which can be bad if you forget. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message