Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 20:52:45 -0400 From: Brian Freeman <bef126@psu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Floppy Drive Message-ID: <33D555DD.69BC@psu.edu>
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Hello: Using Windows 95, I copied a file off the packages collection from the FreeBSD server. I saved it to a floppy disk and now want to copy it to FreeBSD to install it. I booted up FreeBSD and tried this: cp /dev/fd0 /home/myname The copy command places a file called fd0 in my home dirrectory. I tried to rename the file fd0 to the name of the file it was supposed to copy. I tried to unzip it and nothing happened. I'm not sure what it coppied. My question is how do I copy just a single file off my floppy disk to my home dirrectory in FreeBSD or maybee can this be done? I tried specifying the file name with the copy command but I just got the error message "file or directory does not exist" Can I even get a dirrectory listing from my floppy drive? I tried: ls /dev/fd0 but nothing happened. Your help would be greatly appriciated. Thanks, Brian bef126@psu.edu
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