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Date:      Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:27:51 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Gerd Truschinski <agni@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:        freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FTP - Server with ZIP an Floppy 
Message-ID:  <199806301727.KAA06751@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Jun 1998 16:31:29 %2B0200." <3.0.5.32.19980630163129.0093a210@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> 

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> Hi there,
> 
> I want to build a small box which serves as a FTP server 
> for diskless X-Terminals. I.e. people insert a floppy disk
> or a ZIP medium in the box, logon via FTP and read/write their
> files. Then they take their disks away. They could NOT logon
> via telnet nor is there any keyboard at the ftp-box.
> 
> Is it possible to write to a disk 'without' mounting the file
> system each time? Is there something like 'mount volatile'?
> To make it clear, I don't want to have any useraction like
> 'mount -t msdos'.
> 
> Should I stay with KA9Q and DOS because this is not
> possible with FreeBSD.

If you want to use the DOS format, look at 'mtools'.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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