fixer wrote:
FreeBSD localhost 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12
11:05:30 UTC 2007
[email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386
localhost#
I just discovered flash drives. They are very easy to use on Windows.
I don't know if FreeBSD supports these drives. But if FreeBSD does,
I need instructions on "how-to-use". Thanks in advance for anyone who
can help.
Bruce
Have a look at these:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/usb-disks.html
Generally speaking, using an ms-dos (fat/fat32) formatted flash drive is
as simple as this:
- plug
- get device name (probably da0) with dmesg |tail
- mount as root in /mnt: mount -t msdofs /dev/da0s1 /mnt
- Copy / move files etc
- umount /mnt
- unplug
If you read the handbook section, you will also be able to setup your
system for user mounting, so you won't have to mount as root.
Another useful piece of info is this:
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html
With these instructions you can configure automounting in GUIs like
Gnome (and XFCE and possibly others, as long as HAL is used)
Bear in mind that no matter how you mounted the device, you will have
to unmount it before physically removing it, otherwise you are in for a
nasty surprise...
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