Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 09:20:43 -0500 (CDT) From: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu> To: "Young" <young@richardson.apana.org.au> Cc: "Francisco Reyes" <freyes@inch.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Did not forget you Message-ID: <199908301420.JAA43298@beowulf.utmb.edu> In-Reply-To: <002c01bef2a4$1cdc23a0$857e03cb@jdy> References: <002c01bef2a4$1cdc23a0$857e03cb@jdy>
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Young writes: > > Thanks Francisco [elided] > > > >If you get the file from a windows box you can put it in a floppy and > >then mount it > > > >/root>mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt > > > >don't forget to make sure /mnt already exists.. > >mkdir /mnt > > > Well I stumbled across a newbie-friendly way of doing that too :) > I didn't realize there was a BSD version of the linux "mtools" package > but once I found that I don't need to use that mount insanity much. > You know, your constant carping and complaining about the design of Unix, particularly the mount command and its options, is getting to be a little tedious. In my part of the world it is considered extremely rude to complain about something in the same breath that you request people to go out of their way to help you with that something. It is also rude anywhere in the world to describe someone as insane when you have not even met them. I'm talking about the someones who designed the Unix operating system, if that is not immediately obvious to you. Additionally, if you want Unix to behave like Windows of any flavor, I would suggest that you might want to consider running Windows of that flavor. As for the mount command, I invite you to learn something about Unix that might give you a clue about why the mount command works the way it does (and maybe gain a little appreciation for the depth of thought which went into its design): Investigate suid programs and the security holes they represent. Then stare hard at your navel and think about an arbitrary user with physical access to a machine and the ability to mount an arbitrary removable direct access device with a ufs file system on the medium. Get it? When you do, we might be interested in hearing about your design for a mount command which preserves security yet gets rid of the perceived "insanity". FYI, mtools predates Linux even being a gleam in Linus' eye. [log file deleted] -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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