Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 11:48:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: marian parker <marian.parker@mindspring.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sio problems (was: mouse problems) Message-ID: <19980708114852.D7792@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980707210733.006b13e0@pop.mindspring.com>; from marian parker on Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 09:07:33PM -0500 References: <3.0.1.32.19980707204644.006a3fcc@pop.mindspring.com> <3.0.1.32.19980707175835.006975ec@pop.mindspring.com> <3.0.1.32.19980707175835.006975ec@pop.mindspring.com> <19980708105948.X7792@freebie.lemis.com> <3.0.1.32.19980707204644.006a3fcc@pop.mindspring.com> <19980708112515.B7792@freebie.lemis.com> <3.0.1.32.19980707210733.006b13e0@pop.mindspring.com>
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On Tuesday, 7 July 1998 at 21:07:33 -0500, marian parker wrote: > How do I mount an MSDOS floppy? I've never done this. Use mtools instead: it's in the packages on the CD-ROM. Then do: $ mcopy /tmp/foo a: The commands that mtools understands are mattrib, mbadblocks, mcd, mcopy, mdel, mdeltree, mdir, mdu mformat, minfo, mlabel, mmd, mmount, mpartition, mrd, mread mmove, mren, mshowfat, mtoolstest, mtype, mwrite, mzip, which correspond to the DOS names without the inital m (e.g. the DOS COPY comamand becomes mcopy). See the man page for mtools for further information. If you have difficulty installing mtools, you can try this: # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt # copy /tmp/foo /mnt # umount /mnt Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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