From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 9 15:59:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA27985 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 15:59:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA27980 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 15:59:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA04531; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 15:56:28 -0800 Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 15:56:26 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Michael Shover cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ms-dos In-Reply-To: <199602092022.OAA24036@lydia.bradley.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 9 Feb 1996, Michael Shover wrote: > hello. i have installed freebsd from a dos partition. i would now > like to add a few applications, but i cannot download the tar files > to the bsd partition. is there any way that i can download them > to the dos partition and then mount the dos partition from bsd? > any help would be appreciated. thanks alot. Sure. Just download them to the dos partition, modifying the names as appropriate, then mount your dos partition with mount_msdos, then copy the file to a bsd disk, changing the filename back. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major