Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 21:18:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: SHESTER1@aol.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: General questions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970919211352.280S-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <970919224814_1428204574@emout08.mail.aol.com>
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On Fri, 19 Sep 1997 SHESTER1@aol.com wrote: > I have a couple of quick questions: > > 1) Once I mount the floppy, how can I "refresh" the directory if I put a > different disk in? You're probably falling into the DOS/windows habit of expecting the OS to do everything for you :-) Under FreeBSD you must unmount the floppy before ejecting it. Otherwise you stand a pretty good risk of causing a panic when you try to access a new floppy. So the chain of events goes: [insert floppy] mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt [do stuff] umount /mnt [eject disk, insert new one] mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt [do more stuff] I made a script that basically aliases the mount command so I don't have to retype the whole thing all the time. > 2) I only installed the "/bin" files during the initial install, how do I > install the /info or /manpages stuff? I will be using the floppy for the > install. Yuck. Floppies. :-( The easiest way is to copy all of the info.* or manpages.* files into a directory, then run `cd /' then `cat /path/to/manpages.* | tar xzf -' to extract them. Make sure you have the proper privileges, so do this as root. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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