From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 22 14: 4:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wcug.wwu.edu (sloth.wcug.wwu.edu [140.160.164.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A25D37BDE2 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 14:04:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjohnson@wcug.wwu.edu) Received: (qmail 24450 invoked by uid 1089); 22 Jun 2000 21:04:01 -0000 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 14:04:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Christopher Johnson X-Sender: cjohnson@sloth To: Nicholas Lysaght Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MOUNTING - PRINTER In-Reply-To: <00062213403300.00275@myname.my.domain> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From what I know about mounting floppies, try: `mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy` -t specifies the filesystem, and most preformatted floppies use the msdos filesystem rather than the bsd filesystem. You don't need to use /mnt/floppy, another mount point would be ok (/mnt is fine as long as nothing else is using it). `man mount` should provide you with more information on this. I cannot help you with your Zip drive or printer. Chris Johnson cjohnson@wcug.wwu.edu "If the number is out of range, the operation will be unexpected." On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Nicholas Lysaght wrote: > Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:06:57 +0800 > From: Nicholas Lysaght > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: MOUNTING - PRINTER > > Dear Sirs/Mesdames > > I have set up my FreeBSD, with the KDE Desktop on X-Windows from the CD, on my > Third Primary Partition. I run a P200-MMX with 32MB RAM, a Quantum Fireball > 6.4GB HDD, A Panasonic CW-8575 R-R/W CD-ROM, Iomega ATAPI IDE ZIP-100 Drive, A > Hewlett Packard DeskJet 694C Printer, and ScanJet 5p Scanner. > > First things first. I have installed no problems, I really like the KDE > interface, and, even better, I'm on the Internet on BSD! One of the things I > noticed, is that I can mount floppies and even Zip Drives from the KDE > interface. Firstly, I've tried the floppies (3.5 & 5.25) from the interface, > then directly from the command lin using: > mount /dev/fd0 /mnt > Unfortunately, I get the error message "Incorrect Super Block." from the > command line, "...special file system" from the interface. Where am I going > wrong, and where should I be looking for answers, rather than hassling you > people? Of course, this also begs the question about my Zip Drive. "dmesg" is > not very happy about it, describing it as "buggy", but (unlike OS/2, that sees > it as a Drive) can it be formatted like a floppy, and mounted to receive data? > > Secondly, I have looked through the FreeBSD Manual for setting up my Printer. I > have checked that my port works (it does), but I'm not happy about editing > /etc/printcap yet, as there seems to be nothing that seems (to me) to relate > to my HP DeskJet 694C Printer. In both CommandLine and KDE interface, when I > print, the printer works in form feed, but no lines are actually printed. Will > I be able to print graphically, with/without colour etc? > > Finally the scanner. Sane is now on my ports, but I it runs on a proprietry scsi > card supplied by HP. Do you think there's any chance of me getting it to work > in BSD under Sane or something similar? > > Maybe I'm rushing things a bit, but maybe, the Printer and Floppies should come > first. I look forward to hear from you > > Regards > NICK > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message