From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Jan 31 12:59:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA10015 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 12:59:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from Gensys.com (gensys-gw.gensys.com [206.109.98.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA10005 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 12:59:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from Novellnet.Gensys.com (novellnet.Gensys.com [206.109.98.2]) by Gensys.com (8.7.1/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA09506; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 14:55:53 -0600 (CST) Received: from GENSYS/SpoolDir by Novellnet.Gensys.com (Mercury 1.20); 31 Jan 96 14:56:12 -0500 Received: from SpoolDir by GENSYS (Mercury 1.20); 31 Jan 96 14:55:54 -0500 From: "Jeff Hupp" Organization: Gensys Technologies, Inc. To: jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf), bugs@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 14:55:52 -0500 Subject: Re: mtools Reply-to: JHupp@Gensys.Com Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Message-ID: <7AC96E537D@Novellnet.Gensys.com> Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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.