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Date:      Mon, 29 Jun 1998 18:46:06 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Alberto Pandolfo <alberto@ipmcomms.co.uk>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Copying file to floppy!
Message-ID:  <19980629184606.G1880@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <417C2EBF36C3D111B62D00805F89826305DD@IPMCWNT002>; from Alberto Pandolfo on Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 04:40:50PM %2B0100
References:  <417C2EBF36C3D111B62D00805F89826305DD@IPMCWNT002>

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On Friday, 26 June 1998 at 16:40:50 +0100, Alberto Pandolfo wrote:
>
> Once a dos floppy has been mounted,
>
> # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
>
>  how can I read its contents and then copy some files into it?
> Do I need afterwards to unmount the floppy?
>
> I'm not a unix expert I need just a small help.

Don't use mount, use mtools.  They're like DOS commands with an m in
front of them.  For example, to copy file foo.bar to /dev/rfd0 (the
"A:" drive), enter

  mcopy foo.bar a:

You don't need mount or umount.

Greg
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