Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:56:03 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: kwik 1. Message-ID: <20050331005603.GA65720@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20050330190552.GA67020@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20050330190035.GA29237@thought.org> <20050330190552.GA67020@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 09:05:52PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 11:00:35AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > Can I use dd to copy an *.exe file from ~/ to my floppy; > > then have present the file to a:\ under DOG? > > No. If you use dd you'll screw up the floppy's "filesystem". Just mount > the floppy with 'mount -t msdosfs /dev/fd0 <mountpoint>' and copy the > file, or use mcopy from the mtools port. > Thanks, gents. I guess I'm being lazy, not wanting to install mtools--since, AFAIK, fdformat does a DOS-like format. mtools does work, tho... . gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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