Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 22:04:53 From: "Michael G." <mikegoe@earthlink.net> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mounting floppy drive Message-ID: <200006100308.UAA29591@avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net>
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Good point..I should have mentioned that (though I did set the permissions so a lowly user could do it as well)..thanks! Michael G. David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> wrote: > Boucher Eric writes: > > Hi, > > > > I wanted to know how to mount my floppy drive A: > > > > I tried mount /dev/fd0 /A > > > > with a file A already created, but it didn't work. > > > > What can I do? > > You can ask yourself if you *really* want to mount the floppy or if you > just want to be able to read and write files on it. The two are not the > same thing. > > If you install the mtools port/package then adjust the permissions, > maybe group, maybe owner, of /dev/fd0, then anybody according to those > permissions will be able to access the floppy drive(s) using the mtools > utilities without mounting the media. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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