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Date:      Sun, 13 Oct 1996 19:18:30 -0500 (CDT)
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        Guy Silliman <gws@prolog.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: 2 more simple questions
Message-ID:  <XFMail.961013192400.dkelly@hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961013103901.1075B-100000@mgpr.ptd.net>

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On 15:43:13 Guy Silliman wrote:
>Ok... well I am finally working with PPP, doing well... can't get it to 
>dial on demand, but that is not a problem for me right now.
>
>My two questions... 
>1: How do you mount a floppy drive?
>   I have 2 floppy drives and I can't seem to figure out how to mount and 
>   access them!

Its easiest *not* to mount the floppies. Use the mtools package
and simply "mdir" and "mcopy" as needed. Otherwise a line in
/etc/fstab something like this might get you started:

/dev/fd0.1440  /dosa  msdos   rw,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd1.1440  /dosb  msdos   rw,noauto 0 0

>2: I have downloaded netscape 3.0 for bsd, but I can't seem to get 
>   anywhere with the downloaded file...what do I need to do to get at the 
>   compressed files... I have tried opening the files with gzip then tar, 
>   but I get nowhere fast.

Start with "tar -tvzf netscape.tar.gz" to see what's in the archive.
The thing I think you were missing was the 'z' in the options to do
the gzip thing inside tar.
--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@tomcat1.tbe.com (wk), dkelly@hiwaay.net (hm)
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