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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: getting mtools working (again) ? Date: 10 Sep 92 07:14:51 GMT Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Lines: 33 Message-ID: <veit.716109291@du9ds3> References: <1992Sep9.071926.6592@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de In <1992Sep9.071926.6592@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> paoletti@cps.msu.edu (David R. Paoletti) writes: >I've got 386BSD up and running, and installed the binaries >using the loadfd command when I started. My problem is that >now none of the mtools (mdir, mread, etc) will work. If I do >something like mdir a: or mdir "a:" or mdir "a:*.*", it just >aborts with the error: > init: open: No such file or directory >I'm pretty sure that 386BSD is finding my drives at bootup: > fd0: drives 0: 1.44M, 1: 1.2M at 0x3f0 irq 6 drq 2 on isa >Any help much appreciated, as I can't get the src, XFree386, >etc. until I get this working... >Dave Paoletti :) This should get into the FAQ: A non-root user has no R/W access to the floppies. Set the permissions to 666 for /dev/fd?[a-h]. This, however, introduces all dirty tricks that undermine security, so a probably better idea could be 644. Holger -- | | / Dr. Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | BITNET: veit%du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de@UNIDO | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | "No, my programs are not BUGGY, these are | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | just unexpected FEATURES"