From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 4:17:32 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 CC56837B400 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 04:17:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EF0543E4A for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 04:17:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7FBHQuF059886; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 05:17:27 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g7FBHQOs059883; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 05:17:26 -0600 (MDT)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 05:17:26 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Oh merciful god! Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Accessing my floppy drive In-Reply-To: <000701c241e2$519ccc80$5068b83f@rahj> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Oh merciful god! wrote: > 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. You've created a directory called fd0 in the / directory, I bet. The device has to be /dev/fd0 (or fd0a or fd0c, I forget--I just use mtools). > 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! Yep, you've made a directory. Install the mtools port and it'll help. You also don't have to worry about forgetting to umount the floppy afterwards. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message