From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 2 06:08:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA21758 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 06:08:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from voland.freenet.bishkek.su (voland.freenet.bishkek.su [193.125.230.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA21643 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 06:07:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fygrave@freenet.bishkek.su) Received: from freenet.kg (mail@freenet.bishkek.su [193.125.230.1]) by voland.freenet.bishkek.su (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA06773; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 19:01:54 +0500 (KGT) Received: from localhost (fygrave@localhost) by freenet.kg (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA17272; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 18:26:15 +0500 (KGT) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 18:26:15 +0500 (KGT) From: CyberPsychotic To: Gary Kline cc: "Eric S. Nooden" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A question? In-Reply-To: <199810012049.NAA01004@tao.thought.org> Message-ID: X-copyright: The content of this message is intellectual property of its author. So are all mistakes. X-warning: Anyone sending unwanted advertising e-mail to this address will be charged 25USD for network traffic and computing time. By extracting my address from this message or its header you agree to these terms. X-lummer: Bill Gates MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. BS. He needs to specify device first. I.G. mount /dev/XXX /mnt and speaking of floppy, also specify type of filesystem : -t msdos when you specify directory or file instead of device, you'd get such error. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message