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Date:      Tue, 07 Jan 1997 10:16:58 MET
From:      Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@BA-Stuttgart.De>
To:        pdonner@cisco.com (Paul G. Donner)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A few questions.
Message-ID:  <199701070916.KAA24846@amadeus.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970106193609.00c8f1b0@lint.cisco.com>; from "Paul G. Donner" at Jan 06, 97 7:36 pm

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> That's the problem.  I don't know how to copy from a DOS to a UNIX partition.
> 

Well, I have never done this before either, because on my PC I never had
DOS running :-) .

So boot FreeBSD, read the handbook and use the manual.

I guess you need to do a mount, like the following:
(to do this, you have to log in as root!)

# mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /mnt
                      | | |   +---- An existing empty directory
                      | | +-------- Partition number starting with 1
		      | +---------- Number of IDE-Disk starting with 0
                      +------------ Using IDE-Disk

This example assumes, that you have msdos-filesystem on the first
Partition of your first IDE-Disk.

If this turns out to be successfull, you do a
# cd /mnt
# ls
and you should see the files in the dos partition.

Good luck,
Wolfgang Helbig



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