From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 8 19:32:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3B6837B4EC for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 19:31:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.com ([24.177.141.133]) by femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010209033152.CTBN605.femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 19:31:52 -0800 Message-ID: <3A8364A8.3F7450F0@home.com> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 19:31:52 -0800 From: "Raymundo M. Vega" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aaron Hill Cc: atsaleh@hotmail.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppy drive and networking References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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