On Wed, 08 Dec 1999, Congdon, Christopher wrote about, Newbie from hell:
> Help...
>
> I really need to go out and buy a Linux Book I'm sure... But in the
> meantime, could someone help me out with a couple of really simple things...
>
I will give the examples for the super user, (root) that way there should
be no misunderstandings about a user not being able to create directorys or
mount disks.
> Access the floppy drive
That is a paragraph of its own, if we are talking M$ flops here then the
command 'mdir' will show the contents of the floppy.
To mount the drive;
mount -tmsdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
-t = filesystem type /dev/fd0 is Drive A: /mnt is the mountpoint, you
should have a /mnt directory by default.
> Create Directories on the Hard Drive
mkdir /pipo creates a directory under /
mkdir /home/flippo/pipo makes the dir, under /home/flippo
a small note here when making directorys as root, you will need to change
the permissions on created directorys in some curcumstancies if a regular
user needs to read and write in that directory created by root.
> Move files from the Floppy Drive to the Hard Drive
cp /mnt/filename /pipo
cp /mnt/filename /home/flippo/pipo
>
>
> I'm sure someone's got to be laughing at me for not having such basic
> information (It's actually kind of embarrassing...I'm a network engineer for
> a living, and I can't copy a bunch of files from a floppy disk.... *Sigh*)
Not at all, (snikker), but i suggest you read or try to read some manual
pages for the commands.
man <command>
man cp
man mount
man mkdir
man chmod
man chown
I just came back from hell, i have had my second hernia operation.
>
> Thanks a lot...
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Regards Richard
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