From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 4 19:45:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA20001 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 19:45:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.dcfinc.com (freebie.dcfinc.com [138.113.5.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA19991 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 19:45:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freebie.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freebie.dcfinc.com (8.8.7/8.8.3a) id TAA09949; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 19:44:53 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199808050244.TAA09949@freebie.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Install *actually* friendly To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 19:44:48 -0700 (MST) Cc: jchill@dgsys.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199808050025.RAA04543@implode.root.com> from David Greenman at "Aug 4, 98 05:25:59 pm" Reply-to: chad@dcfinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >4. Since FreeBSD runs on PC hardware, I would have thought the default > >configuration would be set up to deal with all the "normal" devices one > >might expect to find on a PC. Although I don't anticipate using the floppy > >drive much if at all, still, it *is* there. I would have liked not to have > >had to manually edit my /etc/fstab just to be able to use my floppy drive. > > /etc/fstab is mainly for filesystems that you want mounted at boot time. > This is usually not desired with floppies. One normally just "mount"s them > by hand when needed (e.g. mount /dev/fd0a /mnt). > > -DG However an fstab line like: /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw,noauto 0 0 makes it possible to say: mount /floppy which is easier to type and remember. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL22) Brother, can you paradigm? 602-953-1392 chad@dcfinc.com chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message