From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 4 11:23:36 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 6580B37B401 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:23:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 11E6243E6E for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:23:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 19169 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2002 18:23:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 4 Oct 2002 18:23:33 -0000 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B0FD32FDAB2; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 20:23:30 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 20:23:30 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: John Bleichert Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, xxavi@MyRealBox.com Subject: Re: floppy disk Message-ID: <20021004182330.GT51897@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: John Bleichert , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, xxavi@MyRealBox.com References: <20021004174640.GR51897@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 # syborg@stny.rr.com / 2002-10-04 14:11:06 -0400: > On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > # xxavi@MyRealBox.com / 2002-10-04 17:25:44 +0200: > > > On 04-Oct-2002 Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > > > fdformat -f 1440 fd0.1440 \ > > > > && disklabel -r -w fd0.1440 fd1440 \ > > > > && newfs -T fd1440 fd0.1440 > > > > > > Hi, but when I put: mount /dev/fd0 /drives/fd it says me that: > > > > > > grep: /etc/vfstab: No such file or directory > > > grep: /etc/vfstab: No such file or directory > > > mount: /dev/fd0: Device not configured > > > > grep? since when does mount(8) call grep? > > and who's this /etc/vfstab guy anyway? > > > > ok. do these things: > > 1. uname -a > > 2. which mount > > 3. file `which mount` > > 4. try the mount with /dev/fd0c > > 5. if 4. fails, make sure you actually have a floppy in the drive :) > > Also, are you sure you've compiled support for floppy disks into your > kernel? Also the support for the filesystem on them? well, the snippet i posted puts ufs on the floppy, and i doubt he doesn't have support for that in his kernel. :) (unless, of course, he didn't create the floppy that way. no indication of that was given) -- begin 666 nonexistent.vbs FreeBSD 4.7-RC 8:20PM up 17 days, 3:35, 17 users, load averages: 0.11, 0.11, 0.09 end To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message