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From: jgb@inf.uc3m.es
Subject: Re: Accessing DOS floppies from NetBSD
Message-ID: <CHB8MM.84n@inf.uc3m.es>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 15:06:22 GMT
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Organization: Departamento de Ingenieria - Universidad Carlos III - Madrid (Spain)
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Coranth Gryphon (shaman@mv.mv.com) wrote:
> [...]

> Most of the unices I've played with have things like "doscp" and
> "dosdir" for accessing dos (FAT) floppies.

> Does NetBSD have such a thing. If so, could you tell me where
> to look on my system (and/or where to get it off the net).


	NetBSD has dosfs compiled into the kernel. So, you can, for 
example, type:

# mkdir /a
(insert dos-formated HD loppy in drive a: (fd0))
# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /a

	After that, you can "cd /a", "ls /a", cp /a/* ., Anyway,
you have to do that as root.

	Hope this helps,

		Jesus.

jgb@inf.uc3m.es
jgb@tornasol.uc3m.es