Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 11:03:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Eliuk <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net> To: R J Thompson <jules.winnfield@cableinet.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Basics Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970603104508.246D-100000@kevin.sunshine.net> In-Reply-To: <33944ECE.A2CD039@cableinet.co.uk>
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On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, R J Thompson wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to UNIX and the FreeBSD operating system, and I'm a little > puzzled by the commands available compared to DOS. > > I would like to know if there is a way I could find out about all the > commands available to me, I have looked in the manual but it seems to go > a bit in depth at this stage. Here add this to your bookmarks: http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/newuser/newuser.html > I would like to find out about the basic UNIX commands and how to use > them for my needs. One inparticular problem I have is mounting my DOS > partitions and reading from them in FreeBSD, I have a program I'd like > to transfer onto my FreeBSD partition from my DOS partition. > Mounting your primary dos partition ie C:\ /sbin/mount -t msdos /dev/wd(or sd)0s1 /mnt (or a representative directory that you use) Extended partitions are mapped in after the freebsd and is covered in /usr/share/doc/handbook/handook.html 2.4. MS-DOS user's Questions and Answers Also note that if you see any error messages on mounting unmount immediately: /sbin/umount /mnt _______________________________________ |\ /| | \ kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net / | | \ Kevin G. Eliuk / | | /^\_________________________/^\ | | / \ | |/--===### Powered By FreeBSD 2.2.1 \| | www.freebsd.org | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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