From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 24 12:56:30 2004 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 DB40416A4CE for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 12:56:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A15D043D1D for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 12:56:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Sat, 24 Apr 2004 14:57:21 -0500 Message-ID: <408AC64C.5090605@daleco.biz> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 14:55:56 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040406 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gerard-seibert@rcn.com References: <200404241534.54773.gerard-seibert@rcn.com> In-Reply-To: <200404241534.54773.gerard-seibert@rcn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Apr 2004 19:57:22.0515 (UTC) FILETIME=[5B835230:01C42A36] cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Using One Floppy Drive as Two Drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 19:56:31 -0000 Gerard Seibert wrote: >This is probably very simple, but I can not seem to get it to work. > >I have one physical 3.5" 1.44MB drive. It is configured as /dev/fd0. Is there >a way that I can also configure this drive to be /dev/fd1. The reason is that >I have an alias command : alias A:='sudo mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt' in >my .bashrc file. I would like to add another command using B: instead of A: >and have the file system be NFS instead of msdos. > >Is any of this possible? > >Thanks! > >Gerard Seibert >gerard-seibert@rcn.com > > Heh, that alias looks a tad familiar ;) What have you tried? You should be able to just have the alias point to the same device entry. You might also be able to create a symlink to the device; I just tried this on 5.2 (as root, of course): $cd /dev $ln -s fd0 fdnew $mount -t msdos /dev/fdnew /mnt $ls /mnt No issues. But, isn't "NFS" ~ "network file system." Are you sure of what you're asking for, there? Kevin Kinsey