From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 5 11: 9:22 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 5 11:09:20 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-1.sjc (mail-1.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5A0637B400 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 11:09:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from zoso (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-1.sjc (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA14861; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 11:04:47 -0800 (PST) From: "Otter" To: , Subject: RE: Floppy Drives Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 14:10:01 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <000101c05ee8$61a4fc80$3600a8c0@DVCPRO65> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG }-----Original Message----- }From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG }[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Kevin Chudy }Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 1:23 PM }To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG }Subject: Floppy Drives } } }I am new to FreeBSD. } }I have successfully installed version 3.4. } }After looking in the FreeBSD handbook and other sources I }have a basic }question: } }My floppy drive is detected by FreeBSD. How do you access }the floppy drive }(or hard drives other than the boot drive for that matter) in FreeBSD }(Unix)? If I wanted to access the floppy drive in an MS-DOS }based platform, }I would enter a:. } }Thank you, }Kevin } Kevin, Congratulations on the new installation and welcome to our little club (how many thousands of users are we up to now?) before we can teach you the secret handshake, you must learn to search for your answers before asking. when folks know that you try to answer the question yourself first before asking others, you'll get a much warmer response when you have a SERIOUS problem. since you have found (or are hoping)the mailing list to be useful resource, then you should learn to search the mailing list archives, found at: http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists but of course you already know that you could find this by following links if you start at http://www.freebsd.org. Anything can be found if you just start there. To answer your question, I searched this list (-questions) and came up with this link: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2159997+2161711+/usr/local /www/db/text/1999/freebsd-questions/19990926.freebsd-questions dos-formatted disks are mounted the same way as fat32-formatted disks: "mount_msdos" or "mount -t msdos" -Otter p.s. get that hair sticking up in the back and you can later apply for president of the he-man woman haters club. uh oh, i think i just dated myself! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message