Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:43:15 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2 questions related to mtools Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10003311139170.5133-100000@sun2> In-Reply-To: <20000329171415.D10131@hades.hell.gr>
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On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 01:41:30PM +0200, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > > > 1) What steps are neccesary to allow to usually users to work with > > mtools unconstraint(So far I/they get message of the form: Could > > not initialze /dev/fd0 or something very simmilar,specifc BSD > > definition of floppy disk interface)? > > Without seeing the 'actual' message, I'm only guessing here. I think > that the problem is simply a matter of the proper permissions/group > combination. > > Make a 'floppy' group, and put all the users you want to have access to > the floppy devices in it. Then chmod 660 the proper device files :) Your guess: What are the proper device files.Yes I am exactly so mentaly handicaped as the question implies :) > > 2) Is -t option suitable to archived and gziped files(e.g. I happen > > to get some interesting fllopies with tar and gzipped programs but > > alas in DOS-format for newline.)? If not what other solutions are > > possible? > > What exactly is the problem? Can you mount the floppy and see the > contents of a .tar.gz file with the following commands? Yes, I see i was soehow messy and unprecise with my questions.You will get the corrected version as soon as I reach my machine. I am sorry. Kind regrds, Ariel > # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt > # cd /mnt > # zcat some-archive.tar.gz | tar tvf - > > - Giorgos Keramidas > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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