From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 2:23: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 843FA37B400 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 02:22:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3576B43E6A for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 02:22:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from floess@earthlink.net) Received: from sdn-ap-011caburbp0080.dialsprint.net ([63.184.104.80] helo=rahj) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17fGq6-0000ZE-00; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 02:22:46 -0700 Message-ID: <000701c241e2$519ccc80$5068b83f@rahj> From: "Oh merciful god!" To: , References: <000801c24182$1f3e5d90$0621b83f@rahj> <200208150058.g7F0wLL43335@tierzero.apana.org.au> Subject: Re: Accessing my floppy drive Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 02:26:18 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG haha, yeah there was a floppy disk in there. I realize there is a reason you had to ask that :-) but i did make sure of it. I'm pretty sure my BIOS recognises my floppy because it tries to boot off of it first. I've also tried using a different disk. No luck. At the advice of another reply to my initial email, I tried using fd0a, that didn't work either (I don't have the email in front of me so I might not have recreated their instructions correctly, but I did do them right when I started FreeBSD.). After all this failed I decided to go back and try this floppy disk thing again and FreeBSD did let me cd to /fd0, so I decided to copy my /dmesg to it, and it worked. I thought it was curious that I didn't hear any noises from my floppy drive, so I restarted windows, to check to see if the floppy had the file on it, and it didn't have it, even after I tried to use the line 'tr -d '\r' < dmesg > text-file' as a variation of an instruction I saw on how to translate files from a Un*x type to a .txt type. What's more, I went back and restarted Freebsd, after I found that windows didn't find the file on the disk, and decided to see if freeBSD would see the file w/o the floppy in the drive, I typed cd /fd0, and it worked, then I typed ls and it showed the two files on the directory, w/o the disk in the drive! I've kind of decided that there is some thing about Un*x syntax I don't understand, and I would like to get some of it figured out so that I can convert Un*x files to windows recognizable files and windows recagnizable files to Un*x, and move them back and forth. Please help me sort things out, if you can make sense of this email. Thanx. -- Desmond --- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Astill" To: "Oh merciful god!" ; Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 5:57 PM Subject: Re: Accessing my floppy drive > On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 07:27, Oh merciful god! wrote: > > > # /sbin/mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt > > > > This command came from a FreeBSD turotial from the web and was done under > > as root. > > There is nothing wrong with this command provided it is invoked by root. > Two simple problems occur from time to time: > 1. Try another floppy disk (you DID have a disk in the drive when trying to > mount?). Floppy disks have a habit of becoming unreadable. > 2. Look at your BIOS - does it recognise your floppy drive? If IT doesn't, > neither will FreeBSD. > > If you still have trouble, contact the list again. > > -- > Regards, > Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message