Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 11:24:41 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org> Cc: Tyler Spivey <tyler@wapvi.bc.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: User-mounting floppies (was Re: stupid questions) Message-ID: <20000605112441.B29284@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <20000605073455.L50166@draenor.org>; from marcs@draenor.org on Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 07:34:55AM %2B0200 References: <200006050203.TAA14925@viper.wapvi.bc.ca> <20000605073455.L50166@draenor.org>
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Marc Silver said on Jun 5, 2000 at 07:34:55: > I believe the answer to your question is: > > 1) The index can be found at > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.0-release/INDEX > (for example if you want the package index for 4.0) > > 2) man mount :) > > The command would be something like "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/" This command works only if you're root, though. What happens if you don't want to be root every time you use a floppy? I received the following answer from someone some time back. Since it gets asked pretty often, I think it deserves to be in the FAQ, and if there's nothing terribly dangerous about it, here it is for possible inclusion: (1) As root, change the permissions on the floppy device (/dev/fd0 or whatever) to allow reads/writes by users. (2) As root, set the sysctl vfs.usermount to 1 (3) As ordinary user, create a mount point within your home directory. ie, # chmod a+w /dev/fd0 # sysctl -w vfs.usermount=1 $ mkdir ~/floppy Then you should be able to mount with the following command: $ mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 ~/floppy Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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