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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!mel.dit.csiro.au!actcsiro!news.nsw.CSIRO.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: help a novice. Date: 2 Jul 1996 20:44:25 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 42 Message-ID: <4rc1n9$crm@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31d76be1.5965182@news.axxcess.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E handyman@axxcess.net (shaun.) wrote: > 1. How do I change the permissions? I am the administrator, but i With chmod. Enter ``man 1 chmod'' to see the manual page. (This is refered to as ``chmod(1)'' then, the `1' is the manual section.) > can not even make a directory, nor download a file. > > 2. What command do i use to access the floppy drive (a:)?? The floppy drive is accessible under /dev/*fd0*. All Unix devices are being accessed via so-called ``special files'' that normally live under /dev. However, unlike with DOS, for using floppies with file systems on it, you usually have to mount them first (i.e., make them known to the system). After this, their contents are visible below the mount point. -> mount(8), mount_msdos(8), umount(8) There's one convenient exception: if you are installing the mtools package, you can access MSDOS floppies without mounting them. > 3. Is there an online guide for the stupid? A Unix primer is not available on-line. There's the man page collection, explaining every command, and much more. There's the FAQ and handbook, under /usr/share/doc/, in ASCII or HTML. Still no Unix primer, but explaining some of the specifics and details of FreeBSD. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)