Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:06:30 -0400 From: Mark Segal <mark@club-web.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Brian Freeman <bef126@psu.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppy Drive Message-ID: <33D61DF6.167EB0E7@club-web.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970722190953.2770A-100000@localhost>
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Doug White wrote: > > 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. Or simply add the m-tools package.. and type mcopy a:\<filename> -- Mark Segal mark@club-web.com System Administrator - Club-Web Inc.
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