From owner-freebsd-small Tue Jun 30 10:28:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA26817 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:28:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA26733 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:28:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA06751; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:27:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806301727.KAA06751@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Gerd Truschinski cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP - Server with ZIP an Floppy In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 30 Jun 1998 16:31:29 +0200." <3.0.5.32.19980630163129.0093a210@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:27:51 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi there, > > I want to build a small box which serves as a FTP server > for diskless X-Terminals. I.e. people insert a floppy disk > or a ZIP medium in the box, logon via FTP and read/write their > files. Then they take their disks away. They could NOT logon > via telnet nor is there any keyboard at the ftp-box. > > Is it possible to write to a disk 'without' mounting the file > system each time? Is there something like 'mount volatile'? > To make it clear, I don't want to have any useraction like > 'mount -t msdos'. > > Should I stay with KA9Q and DOS because this is not > possible with FreeBSD. If you want to use the DOS format, look at 'mtools'. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message