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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 21:18:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Fri, 19 Sep 1997 SHESTER1@aol.com wrote:

> I have a couple of quick questions:
> 
> 1) Once I mount the floppy, how can I "refresh" the directory if I put a
> different disk in?

You're probably falling into the DOS/windows habit of expecting the OS to
do everything for you :-)

Under FreeBSD you must unmount the floppy before ejecting it.  Otherwise
you stand a pretty good risk of causing a panic when you try to access a
new floppy.

So the chain of events goes:

[insert floppy]
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
[do stuff]
umount /mnt
[eject disk, insert new one]
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
[do more stuff]

I made a script that basically aliases the mount command so I don't have
to retype the whole thing all the time.

> 2) I only installed the "/bin" files during the initial install, how do I
> install the /info or /manpages stuff?  I will be using the floppy for the
> install.

Yuck.  Floppies. :-(

The easiest way is to copy all of the info.* or manpages.* files into a
directory, then run `cd /' then `cat /path/to/manpages.* | tar xzf -' to
extract them.  Make sure you have the proper privileges, so do this as
root.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
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