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From: bmk@teleport.com (bmk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Writing to floppies
Date: 8 Aug 1994 15:27:26 -0700
Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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In article <324a2d$o5u@news.doit.wisc.edu>, Ron Porter <porter@fozzie> wrote:
>Hello,
> I have a 486 system that i've installed 1.1.5.1 on. It is at home at
>least for the time being so there's no network connectrion. I need to
>know how to get files off the system and bring them into my work. Onto
>floppies seems to be the only possibility. Can FreeBSD write to DOS
>floppies? I've tried to copy files to the /dos partition and was
>informed that this was "read only". Can anyone point out a book or maybe
>a FAQ that explains how to do this.
You have a couple of options. You CAN make your /dos filesystem
read-write by changing an entry in /etc/fstab. Look for the entry that
mounts into /dos, change "ro" to "rw". You can also mount dos floppies
into your filesystem as well. create a directory to mount on and then
issue the following command:
mount -t pcfs /dev/fd0 [directory]
or
mount -t pcfs /dev/fd1 [directory]
for your second floppy drive.
Make sure you umount the disk before you remove it from the drive.
Check out the mount and fstab man pages for more details.
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