From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 29 14:25:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hellasnet.gr (mail.hellasnet.gr [212.54.192.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB00637BC50 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:25:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (ppp4.patr.hellasnet.gr [212.54.197.19]) by mail.hellasnet.gr (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA10761; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 00:24:21 +0200 (GMT) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA11989; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:14:15 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:14:15 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Ariel Burbaickij Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2 questions related to mtools Message-ID: <20000329171415.D10131@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de on Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 01:41:30PM +0200 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 01:41:30PM +0200, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > 1) What steps are neccesary to allow to usually users to work with > mtools unconstraint(So far I/they get message of the form: Could > not initialze /dev/fd0 or something very simmilar,specifc BSD > definition of floppy disk interface)? Without seeing the 'actual' message, I'm only guessing here. I think that the problem is simply a matter of the proper permissions/group combination. Make a 'floppy' group, and put all the users you want to have access to the floppy devices in it. Then chmod 660 the proper device files :) > 2) Is -t option suitable to archived and gziped files(e.g. I happen > to get some interesting fllopies with tar and gzipped programs but > alas in DOS-format for newline.)? If not what other solutions are > possible? What exactly is the problem? Can you mount the floppy and see the contents of a .tar.gz file with the following commands? # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt # cd /mnt # zcat some-archive.tar.gz | tar tvf - - Giorgos Keramidas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message