From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 23 16:11:40 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C892016A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:11:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8017843D1F for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:11:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1101.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 2FD121C000B9 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:11:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1101.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 59C7E1C000B5 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:11:38 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050223161138367.59C7E1C000B5@mwinf1101.wanadoo.fr Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:11:37 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <985824296.20050223171137@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050223100911.GE25458@alzatex.com> References: <1292549780.20050222044102@wanadoo.fr> <1357657649.20050222052929@wanadoo.fr> <487414075.20050222203924@wanadoo.fr> <20050223100911.GE25458@alzatex.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Why can't I access my floppy disk? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:11:40 -0000 Loren M. Lang writes: > Do you mean install a 1440k floppy image onto a disk or just copy a file > smaller than 1440k onto the msdos fs of an already formatted floppy. Specifically, I was trying to generate an installation boot floppy for FreeBSD, in order to install it on my other machine (which is too old to boot from CD). > The latter should be ok even at securelevel 3, but the former can't > because that would mean open /dev/fd0 for writing other than a mount. I got the error just trying to mount the diskette. I tried all different formats of the mount and mount_msdosfs commands and they all either generated a syntax error or told me that the operation was not permitted. -- Anthony