From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 3 17:43:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA15379 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 17:43:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA15374 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 17:43:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA20992; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 17:42:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 17:42:27 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: pirahna@primenet.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppy drive In-Reply-To: <331B6598.39B8@primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 3 Mar 1997 pirahna@primenet.com wrote: > Ok This is my first UNIX system and although this seems like a > incredibly stupid question. I can not figure out how to get to the > floppy drive so I can copy things to and from it. Please help me if you > are able to Assuming these are DOS formatted floppies and you are running as root, you can use the following commands to access your floppy drive. 1. Mount the disk: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt The disk's filesystem will be available as /mnt being the root of the floppy's filesystem. DO NOT REMOVE THE DISK WITHOUT PERFORMING #2 FIRST. 2. When you're done: make sure your current directory is not on the floppy and type: umount /mnt Now you may remove your floppy. Alternatively, you can use the 'mtools' (?) port or package to access the floppy's filesystem. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major