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- From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: getting mtools working (again) ?
- Date: 10 Sep 92 07:14:51 GMT
- Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
- Lines: 33
- Message-ID: <veit.716109291@du9ds3>
- References: <1992Sep9.071926.6592@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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- In <1992Sep9.071926.6592@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> paoletti@cps.msu.edu (David R. Paoletti) writes:
-
- >I've got 386BSD up and running, and installed the binaries
- >using the loadfd command when I started. My problem is that
- >now none of the mtools (mdir, mread, etc) will work. If I do
- >something like mdir a: or mdir "a:" or mdir "a:*.*", it just
- >aborts with the error:
-
- > init: open: No such file or directory
-
- >I'm pretty sure that 386BSD is finding my drives at bootup:
-
- > fd0: drives 0: 1.44M, 1: 1.2M at 0x3f0 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
-
- >Any help much appreciated, as I can't get the src, XFree386,
- >etc. until I get this working...
-
- >Dave Paoletti :)
-
- This should get into the FAQ:
-
- A non-root user has no R/W access to the floppies. Set the
- permissions to 666 for /dev/fd?[a-h]. This, however, introduces
- all dirty tricks that undermine security, so a probably better
- idea could be 644.
-
- Holger
-
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