Date: Thu, 01 Oct 98 14:57:15 -0800 From: "Dan Baker"<dbaker@illuminetss7.com> To: <noodene@beloit.edu> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re[2]: A question? Message-ID: <9810019072.AA907278955@mailgate.illuminetss7.com>
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mkdir /mnt (should already be there, but it won't hurt .....)
/sbin/mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
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Subject: Re: A question?
Author: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> at Internet_mail
Date: 10/1/98 1:49 PM
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
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