From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 4 22:38:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD21B37B615 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 22:38:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt6-216-180-4-107.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.4.107]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.0.Beta1/8.11.0.Beta1) with ESMTP id e555cAG20558 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 00:38:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA45254 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 00:38:08 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <200006050538.AAA45254@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (Freebsd Questions) From: David Kelly Subject: Re: question In-reply-to: Message from Bruce Burden of "Mon, 05 Jun 2000 00:27:56 CDT." <200006050527.AAA07160@sullivan.realtime.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 00:38:07 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bruce Burden writes: > To mount a msdos floppy, add: > > /dev/fd0a /a msdos rw,noauto 0 0 > > to your /etc/fstab. mkdir /a, and you are all set. Well, as long as > you have msdos filesystem support in the kernel... > > Otherwise, simply mount /dev/fd0a if you want a BSD floppy. I've been asleep during this thread until now. Has anybody said anything about /usr/ports/emulators/mtools/? Mtools: mcd, mdir, mcopy, etc, are much easier to use than mounting the floppy as they don't require the floppy to be mounted at all, just inserted. Using mtools you can not execute a file on the floppy. Mtools might have problems with multiple simultaneous access to the floppy files, where mounting the floppy won't. Mtools supports long file names. Mounting might also too, but since discovering mtools I've never bothered to mount a floppy. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message