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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!pnl-oracle!osi-east2.es.net!cronkite.nersc.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!barrnet.net!cdrom.com!wcarchive.cdrom.com!jkh From: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Writing to floppies Date: 10 Aug 1994 06:16:24 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 17 Message-ID: <JKH.94Aug9231624@freefall.cdrom.com> References: <324a2d$o5u@news.doit.wisc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: freefall.cdrom.com In-reply-to: porter@fozzie's message of 8 Aug 1994 03:50:37 GMT In article <324a2d$o5u@news.doit.wisc.edu> porter@fozzie (Ron Porter) writes: 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 Yup! Do a: mount -t pcfs /dev/fd0a /mnt And you've just mounted your dos floppy on /mnt - you can read or write to it. To make your /dos directory also writable, change the `ro' to a `rw' in your /etc/fstab. It defaults to ro so people don't clobber their dos partitions through ill-advised tromping around in it with UNIX commands which sometimes leave it in a bad state. I generally stick to only moving files in or out and I haven't hurt myself yet.. Jordan