Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 19:11:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Brian Freeman <bef126@psu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppy Drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970722190953.2770A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <33D555DD.69BC@psu.edu>
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On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Brian Freeman wrote: > Hello: > > Using Windows 95, I copied a file off the packages collection from the > FreeBSD server. I saved it to a floppy disk and now want to copy it to > FreeBSD to install it. I booted up FreeBSD and tried this: > cp /dev/fd0 /home/myname > The copy command places a file called fd0 in my home dirrectory. I tried > to rename the file fd0 to the name of the file it was supposed to copy. > I tried to unzip it and nothing happened. I'm not sure what it coppied. You probably copied the device special file. If you want to access the files on a disk, you need to mount it first. For a MS-DOS formatted disk, do the following as root: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt The files will appear at /mnt as the root of the disk. When you're done, do umount /mnt before ejecting the disk. 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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