Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 19:31:52 -0800 From: "Raymundo M. Vega" <RaymundoVega@home.com> To: Aaron Hill <hillaa@hotmail.com> Cc: atsaleh@hotmail.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppy drive and networking Message-ID: <3A8364A8.3F7450F0@home.com> References: <F47VJH1oAUpA5yuLLpU00005105@hotmail.com>
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It is easier to install the mtools package and have a complete set of commands to copy, access, delete, among others. Most important the user does not need to have root access to the computer. suerte raymundo Aaron Hill wrote: > > >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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