Wednesday, June 11, 2008

mounting and unmounting pendrive

This is for Damani Sir,

To mount a pendrive on ur freeBSD running on VMWARE SERVER or WORKSTATION. just plug in ur pendrive when vmware screen is in focus. It will show you some device information.
In case you dont see the device information coming up. go to
VM tab on the top of your screen > choose Detachable devices > and from the list choose the pendrive.
After doing the above
write
#cd /mnt
#mkdir pendrive
#mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1/ /mnt/pendrive/

and your pendrive is ready to use,

to unmount

#cd /mnt/pendrive
#sync
#cd ..
#umount /mnt/pendrive/


and u r all set to go...

ciao
vaibhav