From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 23 08:04:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA22709 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 08:04:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bert.club-web.com (bert.club-web.com [207.176.196.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA22699 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 08:04:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ernie.club-web.com (ernie.club-web.com [207.176.196.12]) by bert.club-web.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id LAA00400; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:07:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <33D61DF6.167EB0E7@club-web.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:06:30 -0400 From: Mark Segal Organization: Club-Web Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White CC: Brian Freeman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppy Drive References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug White wrote: > > 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. Or simply add the m-tools package.. and type mcopy a:\ -- Mark Segal mark@club-web.com System Administrator - Club-Web Inc.