Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 22:05:58 -0700 From: "Michael P. Sale" <mike@merchantsnet.com> To: <anthony@sohopros.com> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mounting floppy file systems Message-ID: <01bd62ac$04be01a0$5906bccc@708644668>
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Anthony, Very cool. Unfortunatly, now that we have figured it out, some of the more experienced folks (sue and david at a minimum) around here advise against using mount for DOS floppies. You may want to re-read david wolfskills response and get mtools working if it's mainly DOS floppies you are working with. Sue said it was easier to use, and after installing it, I would have to agree. So much to learn......... Take care, Mike ---------------------------------------------- Michael P. Sale MerchantsNet.Com mike@merchantsnet.com www.merchantsnet.com ---------------------------------------------- "Humility has no equal in the battle for knowledge" -- -----Original Message----- From: Anthony E. Coley <anthony@sohopros.com> To: Michael P. Sale <mike@merchantsnet.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 9:21 PM Subject: Re: mounting floppy file systems >Michael P. Sale wrote: > >> Yes!, Yes!, Yes! >> >> I was most certainly missing the point. I did not (apparently) correctly >> understand that the mounting process could actually use any available >> directory (or is that file system). I assumed (don't say it) that there was >> something special about /mnt. Not completely understanding /etc/fstab did >> not help much either. >> >> Knowing this now, pg 211 clearly states that one is to mount the floppy on >> FILE SYSTEM /A. I suspect Greg figured that even a newbie would understand >> that mounting a floppy on /A would require a file system /A. Maybe I'm too >> used to the term "directory"!! Or again, maybe there is more info on this >> earlier in the book that would have clued me in. >> >> I think I still believe that the page could supply a little more info (It's >> so easy to judge other peoples work), but with such a basic concept I can't >> believe that I didn't just gloss over it somewhere in the previous 12 >> chapters. I'll keep looking. >> >> Thanks all, >> >> Mike >> >> ---------------------------------------------- >> Michael P. Sale >> MerchantsNet.Com >> mike@merchantsnet.com >> www.merchantsnet.com >> ---------------------------------------------- >> "Humility has no equal in the >> battle for knowledge" >> -- >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> >> To: Michael P. Sale <mike@merchantsnet.com>; freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG >> <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> >> Date: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 1:58 PM >> Subject: Re: mounting floppy file systems >> >> >On Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 05:24:12PM -0700, Michael P. Sale wrote: >> >> After buying a little sense, I did some searching and came up with the >> >> /mnt instead. Works just fine now, though I'm still searching for how >> >> to get the /A set up as well.. >> > >> >I don't have the book to hand. I'll skip most of the standard questions, >> >since I've seen a few replies to your message cover them. >> > >> >I think you've missed an important point. When you mount a filesystem >> >(whether it's from a floppy, Zip or hard disk) you need to have a >> >pre-existing directory on which to mount it. >> > >> >If the directory /a does not exist, you will first need to create it. >> > >> > # mkdir /a >> > # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /a >> > >> >will probably work. >> > >> >I suspect the /mnt directory existed, and the /a directory did not (it's >> >possible a previous section of the book showed its creation, but, as I >> >say, I don't have the book to hand). >> > >> >/mnt is an informal convention about where to mount things. For example, >> >I have 1 floppy drive, 1 CDROM and 1 ZIP drive in my machine. I have >> > >> > /mnt/floppy >> > /mnt/cdrom >> > /mnt/zip >> > >> >set up, and mount on to there with commands like >> > >> > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy >> > mount -t msdos /dev/cd0 /mnt/cdrom >> > mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s4 /mnt/zip >> > >> >as appropriate. >> > >> >If the directories don't exist, this happens >> > >> > # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /non_existant_dir >> > mount: /non_existant_dir: No such file or directory >> > >> >Make sense? >> > >> >N >> >-- >> >Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache >> >Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need >> >Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? >> > >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > I just figured it out. I need to make a directory /A so the instructions on >page 211 will >work. So I don't really need to know what you /etc/fstab looks like. It just >took me a littel >longer to figure out. > >Thanks, > >Anthony.... > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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