Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 14:55:52 -0500 From: "Jeff Hupp" <jhupp@novellnet.gensys.com> To: jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf), bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mtools Message-ID: <7AC96E537D@Novellnet.Gensys.com>
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On 31 Jan 96 at 10:12, Jeffrey M. Metcalf wrote: : Hi, : : Sorry, but I kind of have the usual chicken and egg problem here. Since : I have no ethernet card right now, I cannot download the files into the : FreeBSD filesystem. Since I don't have mtools, I cannot get it off of : a DOS floppy. Hence my FreeBSD installation is isolated from the rest of : the world unless I can figure out how to use the /stand/sysinstall : menu driven package installation utilities. I have all the ports files : from CDROM onto a DOS floppy, I just need to know the proper paths on : the floppy to make it all work. I will send a copy of my precise problem : to : Can't you just mount a dos floppy, as in `mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt` -- JHupp@gensys.com |For PGP Public Key: http://gensys.com |finger jhupp@gensys.com Natural laws have no pity.
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