From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 19 19:06:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA22642 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 19:06:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pulp.nildram.co.uk (root@pulp.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA22635 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 19:06:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by pulp.nildram.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) with UUCP id BAA24519; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 01:53:13 GMT Received: from i.vaudrey (i.vaudrey [10.0.0.5]) by mail.nemko.ltd.uk (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id CAA08782; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 02:31:17 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <33D169EB.7D3449D3@test.nemko.ltd.uk> Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 02:29:15 +0100 From: Ian Vaudrey X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Santangelo CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppy mount X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <33D13427.62BF7961@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The easiest way to handle DOS floppies is to install the mtools-3.6 package (or port). Trust me on this! You can mount your floppy with: /sbin/mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt but you won't get long filenames and you must remember to manually unmount it. Mtools is much nicer. - Ian John Santangelo wrote: > > I am a new user to Freee BSD with limited Unix knowledge. I am doing > pretty good (or so I thought). I am trying to copy a tar.gz file > downloaded from a Win 95 machine into my BSD system. I seem to have > mounted the floppy but no files are visible. I was able to copy a file > from my BSD system onto the floppy but cannot see the .tar file. When > I > return the floppy to the Win 95 machine the .tar.gz file is still > there > so I know I have'nt destroyed it. Could someone tell me the proper way > to mount the floppy and read,copy the tar file onto my BSD system. > Thanks in advance. > > John Santangelo