From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 20 23:19:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA10330 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 23:19:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA10325 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 23:19:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost.Stanford.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA04159; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 23:17:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 23:17:34 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=3D=3Fiso-8859-1=3FQ=3F=3D22=3D7F=3D2D=3D3D=3D7C=5F=3D2B?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=3D2D=3D5B=3D29=3DEA=3DD1=3DEE=3DEB=3D5B=3D29=3D2D=3D2B=5F?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=3D7C=3D3D=3D2D=3D7F=3D22=3F=3D?= cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting my disk drive?? In-Reply-To: <199611210212.VAA25559@mur.odyssey.on.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22=7F=2D=3D=7C_=2B=2D=5B=29=EA=D1=EE=EB=5B=29=2D=2B_=7C=3D=2D=7F=22?= wrote: > I have just installed FreeBSD 2.1.5 and I just got ircii. I d/l it through > windows, then copied it to disk in DOS. Now, the problem is..., i want to > copy it to my unix drive from the disk?? but i don't know how to access the > disk drive from unix?? My disk drive is B:\, do i have to mount it? and if > so, how would i go about doing so? > > As root, /sbin/mount -t msdos /dev/fd1 /mnt Then copy the files you want with cp /mnt/filename /usr/wherever If you're really new to unix and freebsd you might want to look at the tutorial for new users at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/newuser/newuser.html or on my own server at http://andrsn.stanford.edu/FreeBSD/newuser.html I'd just send this to you instead of the list but I don't think your return address will work.... Annelise >