From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 9 20: 8:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65DDD37B631 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 20:08:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikegoe@earthlink.net) Received: from localhost (1Cust161.tnt2.montgomery.al.da.uu.net [63.27.156.161]) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA29591 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 20:08:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200006100308.UAA29591@avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net> From: "Michael G." To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 22:04:53 Reply-To: "Michael G." X-Mailer: Emerald Mail (Evaluation) 1.30 running on FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE Java 1.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: mounting floppy drive Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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