From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 2:41: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22F5D37B400 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 02:41:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (sa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF7C843E6A for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 02:41:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Received: from there (dialup-3.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.132]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g7F9evL52796; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 19:10:59 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Message-Id: <200208150940.g7F9evL52796@tierzero.apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: "Oh merciful god!" , Subject: Re: Accessing my floppy drive Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 19:10:20 +0930 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <000801c24182$1f3e5d90$0621b83f@rahj> <200208150058.g7F0wLL43335@tierzero.apana.org.au> <000701c241e2$519ccc80$5068b83f@rahj> In-Reply-To: <000701c241e2$519ccc80$5068b83f@rahj> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 18:56, Oh merciful god! wrote: heaps of stuff ... OK - how about you DON'T mount the floppy drive, but instead use mtools, also as root. Here is the syntax for copying a file from your Un*x system to an msdos floppy. # mcopy /myunixdirectory/myfile a: -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message