Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 02:26:18 -0700 From: "Oh merciful god!" <floess@earthlink.net> To: <bastill@sa.apana.org.au>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Accessing my floppy drive Message-ID: <000701c241e2$519ccc80$5068b83f@rahj> References: <000801c24182$1f3e5d90$0621b83f@rahj> <200208150058.g7F0wLL43335@tierzero.apana.org.au>
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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" <bastill@sa.apana.org.au> To: "Oh merciful god!" <floess@earthlink.net>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> 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
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