From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 2 11:08:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA01549 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 09:07:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA01524 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 09:07:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id CAA05847 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 02:24:37 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA23556; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 11:21:31 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA11954; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 11:21:30 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id LAA04791; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 11:13:36 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602021013.LAA04791@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: newbie : How write to DOS Floppy ? To: stevt@digitalweb.com (Steve Tan) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 11:13:36 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602020101.RAA06440@iceland.it.earthlink.net> from "Steve Tan" at Feb 1, 96 05:01:25 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Steve Tan wrote: > > I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I'm -questions: yes, -current: no. > trying to figure out how to write files to a DOS disk, my > floppy drive. Either mkdir /floppy mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy cp mystuff /floppy umount /floppy or get mtools from the ports/packages, and use mwrite/mread. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)