Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:11:37 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why can't I access my floppy disk? Message-ID: <985824296.20050223171137@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <20050223100911.GE25458@alzatex.com> References: <1292549780.20050222044102@wanadoo.fr> <1357657649.20050222052929@wanadoo.fr> <f88da7b64cfe8799a05bc757f0e33bab@shire.net> <487414075.20050222203924@wanadoo.fr> <20050223100911.GE25458@alzatex.com>
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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
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