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Date:      Thu, 4 Jun 1998 22:42:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Barry Grotjahn <flashlight@swn.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IOMEGA ZIP-DRIVE
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980604224030.26356r-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3576FBC3.C848CAD2@swn.de>

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On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Barry Grotjahn wrote:

> IŽm a new user of FreeBSD and got a few questions to go on :
> - I got no 1.44 MB-disk in my maschine but an ATAPI-IDE IOMEGA-ZIP :
> what must I do for getting access and how

Just what kind of cheap machine is this that doesn't have a floppy drive?
Sorry people the 1.44MB isn't dead yet.

You can boot the CDROM.

> - how can I get additional files from the FreeBSD-CD-ROM (like bash ...
> etc.) - what must I do from the prompt

1.  Mount the CDROM (mount /cdrom usually works)
2.  pkg_add /cdrom/packages/shells/bash-2*

> - how can I get an overview about the filesstructure incl. all
> directories by typing the command (what command)

`man hier'

> - is there a tool available like the ŽNORTON COMMANDERŽ for DOS to get
> an better overview

Midnight Commander should be in the ports or packages tree (the same place
you'll find bash).

> Would be very nice when smbd could help me with this information : so
> IŽd start with the most neccessary configurations ... . 

First time i've seen somebody abbreviated `smbd' -- I thought you were
talking about Samba. :)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
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http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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