Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 16:08:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Dima Dorfman <dima@zwb.net> To: alberto@ipmcomms.co.uk (Alberto Pandolfo) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! Message-ID: <199806252008.QAA28078@nwalme.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <417C2EBF36C3D111B62D00805F89826305DB@IPMCWNT002> from Alberto Pandolfo at "Jun 25, 98 01:11:25 pm"
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> I'm novice about UNIX and freebsd. > How can I know the name of my floppy device in my machine and how can I > read the contents of a disk? > I've heard about mounting the device; what is the command? How does it > work? > Is this the right place for these questions? where can I get some good > references? Can you help me? > Thanks in advance > Alberto Mounting your floppy: # mkdir /floppy # mount /dev/fd0 /floppy # cp /usr/file /floppy # umount /floppy Above moounts the floppy in /floppy, copies a file to it, then unmounts it. To mount a DOS floppy replace the mount commands with # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy Hope this helps :) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Dima Dorfman (dima@zwb.net) AlternativeNet Server Administrator: inferno.alternativenet.org Microsoft: How long do you want to wait today? FreeBSD Rules! Micro$oft Sucks! http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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