From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 8 16:49:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f47.law6.hotmail.com [216.32.241.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C19DA37B4EC for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 16:49:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 16:49:24 -0800 Received: from 165.228.130.11 by lw6fd.law6.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 09 Feb 2001 00:49:24 GMT X-Originating-IP: [165.228.130.11] From: "Aaron Hill" To: atsaleh@hotmail.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Floppy drive and networking Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 00:49:24 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Feb 2001 00:49:24.0582 (UTC) FILETIME=[25C15060:01C09232] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I bought a full FreeBSD package and I cannot get >the floppy drive to mount is it like Linux or what? It's not like Linux in that the /mnt/floppy directory is setup and ready to use by default. But there's no reason not to do it yourself, here's how... Firstly doing it manually... - Log into the machine as root - Put the floppy disk in the machine - Type: mkdir /mnt/floppy - Type: mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy - Do what you need to do with the disk - Type: umount /mnt/floppy - Take the floppy disk out of the machine. I wrote those instructions for a friend of mine this morning - sorry if they are a little too simple. Here's how you set it up so it works like Linux - Log into the machine as root - Edit /etc/fstab and add this line (I can't do the tabs properly in this email)... /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy msdos rw 0 0 - Save the file and exit the editing program. - Make the required directory: mkdir /mnt/floppy Now you can mount the directory with just the command mount /mnt/floppy as you would in Linux. >By using X like GNOME I cannot find the utilities >to mount or to adjest the network settings. What networking details are you interested in? Firstly have a look at the file /etc/rc.conf - you might see what you are looking for in here. For example here's the main lines from one of my systems... network_interfaces="fxp0 lo0" ifconfig_fxp0="inet 192.168.60.90 netmask 255.255.255.0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" defaultrouter="192.168.60.1" hostname="mycomputer.domain.com" DNS settings are in the file /etc/resolv.conf Does that help? Aaron _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message