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Date:      Fri, 9 Feb 1996 15:56:26 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Michael Shover <mikefish@lydia.bradley.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ms-dos
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960209155436.4517A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199602092022.OAA24036@lydia.bradley.edu>

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On Fri, 9 Feb 1996, Michael Shover wrote:

> hello.  i have installed freebsd from a dos partition.  i would now 
> like to add a few applications, but i cannot download the tar files 
> to the bsd partition.  is there any way that i can download them 
> to the dos partition and then mount the dos partition from bsd?  
> any help would be appreciated.  thanks alot.

Sure.  Just download them to the dos partition, modifying the names as 
appropriate, then mount your dos partition with mount_msdos, then copy 
the file to a bsd disk, changing the filename back.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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