Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 02:29:15 +0100 From: Ian Vaudrey <ivaudrey@test.nemko.ltd.uk> To: John Santangelo <johnsant@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppy mount Message-ID: <33D169EB.7D3449D3@test.nemko.ltd.uk> References: <33D13427.62BF7961@mindspring.com>
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The easiest way to handle DOS floppies is to install the mtools-3.6 package (or port). Trust me on this! You can mount your floppy with: /sbin/mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt but you won't get long filenames and you must remember to manually unmount it. Mtools is much nicer. - Ian John Santangelo wrote: > > I am a new user to Freee BSD with limited Unix knowledge. I am doing > pretty good (or so I thought). I am trying to copy a tar.gz file > downloaded from a Win 95 machine into my BSD system. I seem to have > mounted the floppy but no files are visible. I was able to copy a file > from my BSD system onto the floppy but cannot see the .tar file. When > I > return the floppy to the Win 95 machine the .tar.gz file is still > there > so I know I have'nt destroyed it. Could someone tell me the proper way > to mount the floppy and read,copy the tar file onto my BSD system. > Thanks in advance. > > John Santangelo
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