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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.netspace.net.au!tornado!mheath From: mheath@netspace.net.au (Mark Heath) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: how to access floppy drive Date: 1 May 1997 06:37:36 GMT Organization: Netspace Online Systems Lines: 55 Message-ID: <5k9dng$8dk$1@otis.netspace.net.au> References: <5k90b2$jd1@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: netspace.net.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40081 Rahmat Qurbani (tamhar@wam.umd.edu) wrote: : I recently installed FreeBSD-2.2.1 to my system, I was wondering : how to access my floppy drive, in dos its either a: or b: but do not : know the command in unix(specially in FreeBSD) of how to access the floppy : drive? Also, is there a way to access my dos files when I am running : FreeBSD, in other words the dos files located in my hard drive? : Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. thanks. There are a few ways to do this, Depending on what you want to do with your floppies. For reading dos floppies, the easiest thing to do is get the mtools package, make and install it. Then all you need to do is add an M to the dos command of your choice. eg: mdir a: mcopy a:file file etc. or you can mount the floppy so that FreeBSD treats it like the rest of the file system (as root) mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mountpoint where mountpoint is where you want to mount the floppy then you can simply do: ls -la /mountpoint cp /mountpoint/file ~/file this can be extended to include harddisks mount -t msdos /dev/<harddrivedevicepartition> /mountpoint where harddrivedevicepartition is something like wd0s1 when you're finished using the floppy type: umount /mountpoint or if you're a true guru, you just read and write to the raw floppy: cp file /dev/rfd0 dd if=/dev/fd0 of=image tar -cvMf /dev/rfd0 files... etc. -- -- mark heath | Netspace Online Systems http://www.netspace.net.au/ mark@crafti.com.au | SAM002 member - Society Against Microsoft mheath@netspace.net.au | +61(0)411 224 397 WW91IGhhdmUgc3VjY2Vzc2Z1bGx5IHVuIGVuY29kZWQgdGhpcyBmaWxlLgo= SPAMBOTS PLEASE NOTE: I dont run ANY Microsoft products or live in America