From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 13 17:28:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA13610 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 17:28:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nexgen.n4hhe.ampr.org (max12-66.HiWAAY.net [206.104.16.66]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA13501 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 17:26:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by nexgen.n4hhe.ampr.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id TAA26453; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 19:24:00 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.5-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 19:18:30 -0500 (CDT) Organization: Amateur Radio N4HHE, Madison, AL. From: David Kelly To: Guy Silliman Subject: RE: 2 more simple questions Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 15:43:13 Guy Silliman wrote: >Ok... well I am finally working with PPP, doing well... can't get it to >dial on demand, but that is not a problem for me right now. > >My two questions... >1: How do you mount a floppy drive? > I have 2 floppy drives and I can't seem to figure out how to mount and > access them! Its easiest *not* to mount the floppies. Use the mtools package and simply "mdir" and "mcopy" as needed. Otherwise a line in /etc/fstab something like this might get you started: /dev/fd0.1440 /dosa msdos rw,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd1.1440 /dosb msdos rw,noauto 0 0 >2: I have downloaded netscape 3.0 for bsd, but I can't seem to get > anywhere with the downloaded file...what do I need to do to get at the > compressed files... I have tried opening the files with gzip then tar, > but I get nowhere fast. Start with "tar -tvzf netscape.tar.gz" to see what's in the archive. The thing I think you were missing was the 'z' in the options to do the gzip thing inside tar. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@tomcat1.tbe.com (wk), dkelly@hiwaay.net (hm) ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.