>This "Mount" term is confusing, what does it mean? mount is a command that 'adds' some files to your filesystem. it is generally used to mount files on removable media types, i.e. floppies and cd-roms, zips,etc. but your whole filesystem is 'mounted' (usually at boot) and mount points are things like '/' and '/etc/' or '/usr/' and your whole filesystem is unmounted on shutdown (at least it is if everything is going smoothly).
For a more detailed description of the commands check the man pages for 'mount' and 'umount' you can do this by typing 'man mount'. --__--__-- Message: 12 Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:35:35 -0500 From: Royce Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Newbie]filemanager Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dexter Filmore wrote: >Errr. > >Why dontcha just mount the DOS drives into your BSD root dir? Like > >mkdir /dos > >mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /dos > >(or hda2 or sda1 or whatever your DOS drive is) > >The file manager is not the point here, it's the file system that needs >to be hooked into the system (UN*X philosophy: everything is a file) > >If I got you all wrong here, lemme know. > >Dex > > Dex you are absouloutely correct. We bought BSD and 2 books on it, the CD's came first. We had a spare drive, so we installed it on this drive. It installed as/just as easilly as windows, and even took less time. We can wheel and deal with the DOS world, and have started programing for protected mode. The Unix world is completely new to us. This "Mount" term is confusing, what does it mean? Thanks so much for your help. Royce > > > >>The CD does not have a file manager listed in any of the ports. We >>found MC on the FreeBSD web site as well as Mozilla. We downloaded them >>to our DOS drive but DOS does not recognise the BSD drive, and BSD does >>not recogonise the DOS drive. >>We need a file manager that will read both drives. >>Anyone knw of a file manager like this? >> >> >_______________________________________________ >Newbie mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >*** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: >http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie > > > _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
