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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nexus.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.bu.edu!mi From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Suggestion for 2.1 Date: 23 Jun 1995 23:34:50 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3sfj2q$q62@news.bu.edu> References: <3r7888$280@germany.eu.net> <3s7h66$j4l@iii1.iii.net> <3s8qj7$meh@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <3saqif$lrc@news.bu.edu> <3sc8l9$2ar@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: csb.bu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Some time ago (22 Jun 1995 19:18:33 +0200) honorable J Wunsch, residing at j@bonnie.heep.sax.de wrote: |Mikhail Teterin <mi@cs.bu.edu> wrote: |DOS does no ``mounting on demand'', it does no mounting at all. |What are you thinking of? Please elaborate on it... Sorry, being a user (hopefully a "sofisticated" one (-: )I may only say, that in dos I can just insert a floppy and say 'a:' ... So, in FreeBSD, that may look like: "I insert a floppy and say 'cd /diska'". I realize, that this will be absolutely out of Unix traditions, and will make trouble with Unix partitioned floppies, but there is definelty something to be done. Having a proper entries in /etc/fstab will do it, but not now, as DOS does not require you to know a format of the floppy. And FreeBSD may, actually, free you from knowing what kind of FS that is. It will take longer to mount (trying all the combinations, starting with the most frequently used, of course), but those who know exactly the format, may still do it in todays way. Thanks again for an excelent system, and, please do not beat me to hard :-) -mi -- " -- 'Аблигация' или 'Облигация'? " The following two lines are NOT related to each other! (-: "When in doubt, let your horse do the thinking." "Computer hackers do it all night long..."