From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 23 10:09:13 2005 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 0B15716A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:09:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (joel.tallye.com [216.99.199.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 318BC43D1F for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:09:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lorenl@alzatex.com) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (hosea.tallye.com [127.0.0.1]) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1NA9BXq026807 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 02:09:11 -0800 Received: (from sttng359@localhost) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10/Submit) id j1NA9BIs026805 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 02:09:11 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: hosea.tallye.com: sttng359 set sender to lorenl@alzatex.com using -f Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 02:09:11 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050223100911.GE25458@alzatex.com> References: <1292549780.20050222044102@wanadoo.fr> <1357657649.20050222052929@wanadoo.fr> <487414075.20050222203924@wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <487414075.20050222203924@wanadoo.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc X-GPG-Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C Subject: Re: Why can't I access my floppy disk? 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: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:09:13 -0000 On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 08:39:24PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: > > > Why would you want to mount an MSDOS floppy on a server? > > In order to copy a raw file image to the floppy. 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. 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. > > > That reduces the security and stability of your server > > Not really. See above. The intent is not to leave the floppy permanently > mounted; I only needed to copy a raw diskette image to the floppy (a > boot floppy for FreeBSD, as it happens). As it happens, I found a way to > do it under Windows, so the problem is solved. > > -- > Anthony > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C