From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 8 04:47:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA08704 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 04:47:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA08698 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 04:47:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from chronias.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.59.121]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA71ED; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 13:46:50 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5060100025567247000002L072*@MHS> Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 13:50:50 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Ghulum Dastgir Subject: RE: Mounting filesystems in FBSD 2.2.6 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 08-Nov-98 Ghulum Dastgir wrote: > Hi, > > primarily, I'm having difficulty mounting my floppy drive, fd0. What line > would > I have to add to /etc/fstab to do this? Shouldn't it be: > > /dev/fd0 /A ufs rw 2 2 I usually use /dev/fd0 /disk *fs rw,noauto 0 0 *fs = what filesystem ye require... > Finally, I currently have a read-only /dos mountpoint point on my fbsd > installation so that I can access my Windows files. Now is it possible for me > to have r/w access to this filesystem - if not why not(though I probably know > what the answer is going to be here)? Why not? The FAT & FAT-32 filesystems are R/W under FreeBSD. NOTE: depends on yer release of FAT-32 is available... standard 2.2.6 does NOT have it... Dunno about cvsupped ones... > I've heard that under linux it is possible to have a Windows icon on your > Linux > desktop that enables you to open Windows while running Linux, with a simple > click (without the need for rebooting). I know that you guys are working on > Windows emulation but is it possible to have one of these. If not, then I > su[ppose I could always get this icon and run it under a Linux emulator > session. Open Windows while running Linux? That's either a fable or WINE. Would love to see the Linux Emulator running WINE ;) then we get FreeBSD->Emulating Linux->Emulating Windows --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl Junior Network/Security Specialist *BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message