From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 19 16:19:54 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA18166 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 16:19:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from parody.tecc.co.uk (parody.tecc.co.uk [193.128.6.83]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA18138 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 16:19:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by parody.tecc.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA00196; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 21:12:45 GMT Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 21:12:43 +0000 () From: James Raynard To: GR8868@siucvmb.siu.edu cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Communication between DOS and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199512121846.KAA14906@mail.barrnet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 12 Dec 1995 GR8868@siucvmb.siu.edu wrote: > I have successfully installed FreeBSD 2.11 in a minimal installation. I wonder > how I can add other part of FreeBSD (like manpages) to the installation now. > The other question is if I have some files in my DOS part, how can I copy them > into FreeBSD part? Can they communicate with each other in terms of file > transfering? Yes, just mount the DOS partition on a suitable point in the FreeBSD tree. eg if the DOS partition is slice 1 on an IDE HD, mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /mnt (If you do this often it may be better to create another mount point such as /dos - /mnt is really meant for temporary mounts). James Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'