From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 4 17:29:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA27145 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 17:29:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA27083 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 17:29:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA04543; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 17:25:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808050025.RAA04543@implode.root.com> To: Chris Hill cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install *actually* friendly In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Aug 1998 18:21:52 EDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 17:25:59 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Oh yeah, one more thing... > >4. Since FreeBSD runs on PC hardware, I would have thought the default >configuration would be set up to deal with all the "normal" devices one >might expect to find on a PC. Although I don't anticipate using the floppy >drive much if at all, still, it *is* there. I would have liked not to have >had to manually edit my /etc/fstab just to be able to use my floppy drive. /etc/fstab is mainly for filesystems that you want mounted at boot time. This is usually not desired with floppies. One normally just "mount"s them by hand when needed (e.g. mount /dev/fd0a /mnt). -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message