From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 22 19:11:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA16194 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 19:11:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line7.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA16188 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 19:11:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA02788; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 19:11:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 19:11:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Brian Freeman cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppy Drive In-Reply-To: <33D555DD.69BC@psu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Brian Freeman wrote: > Hello: > > Using Windows 95, I copied a file off the packages collection from the > FreeBSD server. I saved it to a floppy disk and now want to copy it to > FreeBSD to install it. I booted up FreeBSD and tried this: > cp /dev/fd0 /home/myname > The copy command places a file called fd0 in my home dirrectory. I tried > to rename the file fd0 to the name of the file it was supposed to copy. > I tried to unzip it and nothing happened. I'm not sure what it coppied. You probably copied the device special file. If you want to access the files on a disk, you need to mount it first. For a MS-DOS formatted disk, do the following as root: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt The files will appear at /mnt as the root of the disk. When you're done, do umount /mnt before ejecting the disk. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo