From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 1 14:54:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12367 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 14:54:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from usin.com (rainier.illuminetss7.com [192.246.48.20] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA12356 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 14:54:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dbaker@illuminetss7.com) Received: from mailgate.illuminetss7.com ([192.246.48.181]) by usin.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA16228; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 14:53:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ccMail by mailgate.illuminetss7.com (ccMail Link to SMTP R6.01.01) id AA907278955; Thu, 01 Oct 98 14:55:59 -0800 Message-Id: <9810019072.AA907278955@mailgate.illuminetss7.com> X-Mailer: ccMail Link to SMTP R6.01.01 Date: Thu, 01 Oct 98 14:57:15 -0800 From: "Dan Baker" To: Cc: Subject: Re[2]: A question? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG mkdir /mnt (should already be there, but it won't hurt .....) /sbin/mount /dev/fd0 /mnt ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: A question? Author: Gary Kline 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 > > ================================================================= > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message