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From: felawka@umelba.Triumf.CA (L. Felawka)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Newbie Question
Date: 2 Sep 1996 16:46:56 GMT
Organization: TRIUMF
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Message-ID: <50f320$htt@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
References: <Pine.GSO.3.94.960902010203.23452A-100000@Stratus.CAM.ORG> <50e92c$3fs@news.swan.ac.uk>
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In article <50e92c$3fs@news.swan.ac.uk> eefeisal@atlantic.swan.ac.uk (Feisal Mohammed) writes:
>In article <Pine.GSO.3.94.960902010203.23452A-100000@Stratus.CAM.ORG>,
>General American Compagnie de Reassurance-Vie du Canada wrote:
>
>>How do I go about mounting a DOS diskette under FreeBSD?
>
>>Mario Mendes
>>ga_re@cam.org
>Why mount it? The mtools package has mread, mwrite and a bunch of other
>tools that allows you to read and write to dos floppies. Works great
>for me!
The mtools package isn't bundled with FreeBSD, but the "mount_msdos"
utility _is_. Advice for FreeBSD newbies:
1. Make damn well sure you install the man pages (if your disk is
too small for that then get a bigger one)
2. become "root"
3. type "makewhatis"
4. type "man -k foo" or "apropos foo", where "foo" is any keyword
5. look at the first word of every line that contains a "-" in
column 26, pick one (say, "bar") and type "man bar"
6. you will at this point be in a position to learn a _lot_ about
FreeBSD (after all, is life not a learning experience?)
_____
Larry