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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!handbag.tecc.co.uk!parody.tecc.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@parody.tecc.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mounting DOS partition - from scratch Date: 27 Nov 1995 00:57:48 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD box Lines: 39 Message-ID: <49b2ec$1if@parody.tecc.co.uk> References: <817331593.13641@org29.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost In article <817331593.13641@org29.demon.co.uk>, Stuart M Pringle <stuartp@org29.demon.co.uk> wrote: >I am caught in a Catch 22 situation with my recent installation of FreeBSD >2.0.5 - hence all >my entry level messages in this newsgroup. > >The lack of a handbook has caused some problems but I got the ftp site address >for this 2.1.0 comes with the handbook included. >document. Unfortunately I only have ftp facilities under DOS so although I now >have the >handbook, it is on a DOS partition which I don't know how to mount under >FreeBSD and it is >in a format which I can't uncompress under DOS. Try GZIP.EXE with the -d flag - should be on all good FTP sites (if it's not already on the CD). >Can somebody please tell me how to mount a DOS partition and then how to >translate a file mount -t msdos -o ro /dev/wd0s<n> /mnt cp /mnt/path/to/file/handbook.gz /usr/share/doc/handbook cd /usr/share/doc/handbook gunzip handbook.gz Where <n> is the slice number of your DOS partition. >Thanks for any help. You're welcome. But please make your lines a little shorter in future as they wrapped badly and made your post difficult to read. About 75 chars per line is best. James -- Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'