From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 28 17:15:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA01392 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 May 1998 17:15:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA01348 for ; Thu, 28 May 1998 17:15:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-216.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.216]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id TAA32687; Thu, 28 May 1998 19:15:01 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA19437; Thu, 28 May 1998 19:14:59 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199805290014.TAA19437@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "RMIRON.US.ORACLE.COM" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: using a floppy In-reply-to: Message from "RMIRON.US.ORACLE.COM" of "28 May 1998 12:51:43 PDT." <199805282000.NAA20939@mailsun2.us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 19:14:59 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "RMIRON.US.ORACLE.COM" writes: > Greetings, > > I am running FreeBSD on a pentium platform. The hardware contains a floppy > device. When I try to use the floppy I can format a disk, but I cannot > mount > the floppy. The command that I use is: mount /dev/fd0 /floppy. I get the > error message "Incorrect Super Block". I check the etc/fstab file and it > does > not show anything for /floppy. There were no super block errors during > installation and I have checked the compatibility of the hardware. > > Does the mount command require any options or am I just missing the point > altogether? Almost missing the point. fdformat(1) only does a low level format. The floppy would be good for writing tar achives to. Or you could use newfs(8) to write a new UFS filesystem. Yet we're talking about floppies here, so "mkdosfs(1)" is probably the most appropriate. Then because its not much use to try running something off a floppy, and because mounting is a minor hassle, the mtools port in /usr/ports/emulators/mtools is much handier. Simply use mcopy(1), mdir(1), mcd(1), etc, to access the DOS floppy without mounting. There are/were other tools for dealing with Mac floppies. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message