On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 12:34:17AM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> The problem I now have is that I would like to mount_msdos a regular floppy
> then copy ("cp" or "cpio?") a file from it called ld-elf.so.1 to the
> mounted partition which contains FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE on my hard disk.
>
> Typing just "mount" is not found. Oddly enough, typing "help" or "cd /bin"
> then "./help" says "Permission denied." I cannot locate a "mount" binary,
> however, I found "mount_nfs" and "mount_mfs" so would either of those work
> for mounting both an msdos floppy then my 4.7 partition? Then must I use
> cpio to copy "A:\ld-elf.so.1" over to the 4.7 partition??
You can write the file direct to the floppy device /dev/fd0 as if it
was a tape. No need to mount any sort of filesystem. Since you have
cpio(1) available use:
# cd /usr/libexec
# echo ./ld-elf.so.1 | cpio -o > /dev/fd0
Then to extract the file:
# cd /usr/libexec
# cpio -i < /dev/fd0
Cheers,
Matthew
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