From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 20 0:59:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 422B937BE0E for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 00:59:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 59599 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2000 07:59:06 -0000 Received: from theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in (144.16.71.128) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 20 Jul 2000 07:59:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 3896 invoked by uid 211); 20 Jul 2000 07:59:05 -0000 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:29:04 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: G Murali Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to copy data from free bsd to floppy Message-ID: <20000720132904.A3838@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: G Murali , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <000801bff21e$d1a8bb20$7e0110ac@roc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <000801bff21e$d1a8bb20$7e0110ac@roc.com>; from gmurali@trinc.com on Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 01:17:32PM +0530 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.32 i486 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG G Murali said on Jul 20, 2000 at 13:17:32: > my system is giving errors when i mount to floppy so i want a alternate method inlinux i think we can do with mcopy > but there is no command in bsd so what should i do > please reply me ASAP mcopy is part of the mtools port, /usr/ports/emulators/mtools You can install that, or you can (as root) mount the floppy as an MSDOS filesystem: mkdir /floppy (if it's not there already) mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy cp your.file /floppy umount /floppy (remember to give the umount command before removing the floppy) Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message