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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!morrow.stanford.edu!pangea.Stanford.EDU!felipe From: felipe@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Felipe Guardiano) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: HELP A NOVICE GET STARTED Date: 21 May 1993 22:40:52 GMT Organization: Stanford Univ. Earth Sciences Lines: 31 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1tjlpk$2ch@morrow.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pangea.stanford.edu I have been using using Unix for sometime in workstations as a user. This is my first attempt to play the role of system administrator. I installed 386bsd in my 486/33MHz and now it seems to be up and running well. However, I have some questions that you experts may be able to answer. First, and perhaps more important: Is there any documentation on 386bsd that deals specifically with problems related to DOS/UNIX interaction in a single computer? I got some problems solved by reading the FAQ but most of my questions are not addressed there. These are a few of them: 1) How do you transfer files from the DOS partition to the UNIX partition and vice-versa? Is it possible to do without having to put them in a floppy? 2) On a related subject, how to write a file to a floppy from the Unix OS. Can you write the file(s) in a DOS format into the floppy disk? 3) Is there a fortran compiler available for 386bsd? Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks Felipe felipe@pangea.stanford.edu