Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:14:15 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2 questions related to mtools Message-ID: <20000329171415.D10131@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10003291335430.14321-100000@sun33>; from Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de on Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 01:41:30PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10003291335430.14321-100000@sun33>
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 01:41:30PM +0200, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > 1) What steps are neccesary to allow to usually users to work with > mtools unconstraint(So far I/they get message of the form: Could > not initialze /dev/fd0 or something very simmilar,specifc BSD > definition of floppy disk interface)? Without seeing the 'actual' message, I'm only guessing here. I think that the problem is simply a matter of the proper permissions/group combination. Make a 'floppy' group, and put all the users you want to have access to the floppy devices in it. Then chmod 660 the proper device files :) > 2) Is -t option suitable to archived and gziped files(e.g. I happen > to get some interesting fllopies with tar and gzipped programs but > alas in DOS-format for newline.)? If not what other solutions are > possible? What exactly is the problem? Can you mount the floppy and see the contents of a .tar.gz file with the following commands? # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt # cd /mnt # zcat some-archive.tar.gz | tar tvf - - Giorgos Keramidas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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