Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 13:49:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: noodene@beloit.edu (Eric S. Nooden) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A question? Message-ID: <199810012049.NAA01004@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <199810011504.KAA27534@beloit.edu> from "Eric S. Nooden" at "Oct 1, 98 10:06:49 am"
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According to Eric S. Nooden: > Ok, I liked the Answer Man Q&A. I never mounted my floppy drive before so > I found it pretty informative. Unfortunately, I ran into a problem > mounting the floppy. I did the fdformat, disklabel, and the newfs > successfully but when I try to use "mount /mnt" I get the error: "mount: > /mnt: unknown special file or file system." Have I done something wrong? Does the file mountpoint /mnt exist? If not, as root, you have to create it. > (I am using 2.2.7). Also, after I get it mounted, how do I view its > contents and transfer stuff to it. Once you've mounted the floppy on mount it will be empty (with only . and ..). You can cp files to it or from it. # cp -rp /etc /mnt for example, to save your current configuration files; then # ls -lsR /mnt to see what's there. The filesystem you've created on floppy is a parallel to what you have on your hard drive(s). > One more question: I there a way I can > print the page...when I try to (from Netscape on Win95) it causes Netscape > to crash and no printing is done. > Sorry, don't know nothin' about DOS/Lose95. I could hand-wave here, but I deplore handwaving, so I'm cc'ing your questions to the -questions list. If you're not already subscribed to questions@freebsd.org, you might consider it. Hundreds of super-savvy folk over there. Please let me know about your /mnt mountpoint and if you get everything working. gary kline > > ================================================================= > Eric S. Nooden Information Technology Services > Technical Service Manager(CET,MSC) Beloit College, Mayer Hall #207 > Voice: 608.363.2458 Office hours: 0800-1700 > Fax: 608.363.2100 http://www.inwave.com/~armyeric > ================================================================= > Ah, life! Be my wild mistress!! - Dogbert > -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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