From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 27 16:54:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from malkav.snowmoon.com (machine-126-237.cdcsd.k12.ny.us [208.20.126.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6957814E69 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 16:53:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com) Received: (qmail 83915 invoked from network); 27 Oct 1999 23:53:23 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO localhost.snowmoon.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Oct 1999 23:53:23 -0000 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 19:53:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Jaime Kikpole To: Mark Jaffe Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting images... In-Reply-To: <38178938.D3E6A39E@rsv.ricoh.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Mark Jaffe wrote: > I am unable to mount images. I had thought I could do > > mount -t ufs /cdrom/floppies/boot.flp /floppy > > but it complains about needing a block device: > mount: Block device required That's not what those are for. You should read the handbook's (www.freebsd.org/handbook) installation section. It'll explain what boot.flp (and other *.flp files) are designed to do. Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message