From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 9 16:56:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA19339 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 16:56:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail.missouri.edu (mail.missouri.edu [128.206.2.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA19333 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 16:56:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rich@pencil.math.missouri.edu) Received: from pencil.math.missouri.edu.math.missouri.edu (pencil.math.missouri.edu [128.206.72.46]) by mail.missouri.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA147136; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 18:56:21 -0600 Received: by pencil.math.missouri.edu.math.missouri.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05531; Sun, 9 Nov 97 18:56:19 CST From: rich@pencil.math.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel) Message-Id: <9711100056.AA05531@pencil.math.missouri.edu.math.missouri.edu> Subject: Re: Permissions problem mounting floppy To: fullermd@futuresouth.com (Matthew D. Fuller) Date: Sun, 9 Nov 97 18:56:18 CST Cc: rich@chumbly.math.missouri.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: ; from "Matthew D. Fuller" at Nov 9, 97 6:07 pm Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Matthew D. Fuller: > On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Rich Winkel wrote: > > I should also mention that mount_msdos is setuid to root. > > > Ah ha. > I think you need to specify the minor number. > If it's a 3.5" drive, try this: > mount_msdos /dev/fd0.1440 /fd Thanks for the reply. But it doesn't work :-< I can mount it with exactly the above command as root. Rich