From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 15 19:23:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA19296 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 19:23:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA19287 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 19:23:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA08255; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:53:12 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA24911; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:53:01 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981016115300.T468@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:53:00 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Guang-an Wu , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to use floppy disk References: <36266274.5CAF3156@csgrad.cs.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <36266274.5CAF3156@csgrad.cs.vt.edu>; from Guang-an Wu on Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 05:00:36PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 15 October 1998 at 17:00:36 -0400, Guang-an Wu wrote: > Dear Sir/madam, > I got a question about how to use a floppy disk in FreeBSD. Remove it from the box and throw it as far as possible. Seriously, don't use floppies if you can possibly avoid them. If you have a Microsoft floppy which you want to read, use mtools from the Ports Collection. > I once saw a guy entering a 4-letter command like "sash" and then he > entered a special state, something like after hitting "ftp". Using Help, > he got a list of commands about reading, writing and formating a floppy > disk. Could you please tell what command he used? Maybe it was sash, if he was using a MIPS-based box. They have a "Standalone Shell" called sash. FreeBSD doesn't have any equivalent, since it's a motherboard function. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message