From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 11 17:56:18 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA02801 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Mar 1995 17:56:18 -0800 Received: from glueserv1.umd.edu (glueserv1.umd.edu [129.2.70.69]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA02795 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 1995 17:56:17 -0800 Received: from mocha.eng.umd.edu (mocha.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.16]) by glueserv1.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id UAA13229; Sat, 11 Mar 1995 20:56:14 -0500 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by mocha.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) id UAA28457; Sat, 11 Mar 1995 20:56:14 -0500 Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1995 20:56:14 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Michael Caughey cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Floppy Drives In-Reply-To: <199503120006.TAA16455@larry.infi.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 11 Mar 1995, Michael Caughey wrote: > How can I access my floppy drive in freeBSD? You want to become friends with the mount command, and the various devices in the /dev directory that can control your floppy drives. The filesystem type for dos is 'msdos'. Read the mount man page, and remember, you have to be su'd to root to get them to work. My machine has a 3 1/2" drive at the B drive....to mount a 144K floppy in that drive, I issue the command 'mount -t msdos /dev/fd1.1440 /mnt' on my system. I have an empty directory /mnt there just to facilitate miscellaneous mounts. After that command, I can access the floppy by using standard Unix commands to the /mnt directory. Don't forget the umount the drive when you finish! ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------