Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:29:04 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: G Murali <gmurali@trinc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to copy data from free bsd to floppy Message-ID: <20000720132904.A3838@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <000801bff21e$d1a8bb20$7e0110ac@roc.com>; from gmurali@trinc.com on Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 01:17:32PM %2B0530 References: <000801bff21e$d1a8bb20$7e0110ac@roc.com>
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G Murali said on Jul 20, 2000 at 13:17:32: > my system is giving errors when i mount to floppy so i want a alternate method inlinux i think we can do with mcopy > but there is no command in bsd so what should i do > please reply me ASAP mcopy is part of the mtools port, /usr/ports/emulators/mtools You can install that, or you can (as root) mount the floppy as an MSDOS filesystem: mkdir /floppy (if it's not there already) mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy cp your.file /floppy umount /floppy (remember to give the umount command before removing the floppy) Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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