From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jul 15 10:40:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from darius.concentric.net (darius.concentric.net [207.155.198.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DD9914EA7 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:40:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mlduke@marconi.concentric.net) Received: from mcfeely.concentric.net (mcfeely [207.155.198.83]) by darius.concentric.net (8.9.1a/(98/12/15 5.12)) id NAA12824; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:40:37 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from ts003d24.mer-id.concentric.net (ts003d24.mer-id.concentric.net [206.173.184.132]) by mcfeely.concentric.net (8.9.1a) id NAA03910; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:40:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:43:01 -0600 (MDT) From: ML Duke X-Sender: mlduke@concentric.net To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Idiot on Board Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm a two year old newbie and feel like an idiot. I've installed 3, maybe 4, FBSD versions and configured them to work, albiet with help, and recently made the divorce from mscrash complete and I do _all_ of my real live work in FBSD as in make a living in Unix. And now, I find myself unable to mount and unmount a floppy file system, read the contents of a floppy, or get the current 1.44 floppy disk out of the drive, and I've been reading docs for the past three hours straight (for the record, this is not a question--it's a rant). In preparation for loading up a new box with 3.2 and giving this aged 486DX4/100 to my daughter, I did: #tar cvpf /dev/rfd0 /etc with a 1.44 floppy in the drive and that worked and took the floppy out and put a new one in and did: #tar cvpf /dev/rfd0 /usr/local/etc and that worked and put in another floppy and did: #tar cvpf /dev/rfd0 /var/spool /var/db/pkg and that didn't work and that floppy is now stuck in the drive as in the eject button works and the floppy comes loose, but will not release from the drive. So, should anyone else ever do anything stupid, and forget what you knew 2 years ago, and find yourself surrounded with endless reams of documentation and _still_ can't find the answer--find comfort in the fact that you have some company. (Which I'm fully aware is no help, at all.) ML Duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message