From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 22 14:12:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50B8B37C259 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:12:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bduk@arthlink.net) Received: from arthlink.net (sdn-ar-003orportP053.dialsprint.net [63.178.65.37]) by kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA16352; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:12:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bduk@localhost) by arthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA01126; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:11:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bduk) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:11:28 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003222211.OAA01126@arthlink.net> From: Derrick Baumer To: spider90@hotmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <20000322213849.24474.qmail@hotmail.com> (spider90@hotmail.com) Subject: Re: Permissions Reply-To: bduk@earthlink.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: "spider 90" > > I sent an email a little earlier but I am not sure it came thru as I > am have difficulties with my hotmail account. It came through, we're just thinking. > The address is spider90@hotmail.com. The issue I am having is I am > attempting to mount my floppy drive but it is not listed in > /etc/fstab. If it's listed in /etc/fstab, you can mount it easier, but you can still mount it if it's not listed there. You just have to give the full command: mount -tmsdos /dev/fd0.1440 /mnt ^^^^^ ^^^^ | +--disk size (commonly 360, 720, 1200 or 1440) +--filesystem type (msdos, ufs, etc...) or something like that according to your needs. > So the book complete freebsd advises you need to use the MAKEDEV > command. So when I try /MAKEDEV fd0 That would be cd /dev ./MAKEDEV fd0 exactly, right? > I get a permission denied /usr/sbin message. I am root and in fact > I dont have a user setup yet. Isn't root supposed to be able to > access or use MAKEDEV? I spend 2 hrs trying to use that command but > no success. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. What is the exact text of the message you get? -- Derrick Baumer bduk@earthlink.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message