From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 19 02:44:17 2004 Return-Path: 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 C7EBF16A4CE for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 02:44:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from web21505.mail.yahoo.com (web21505.mail.yahoo.com [66.163.169.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8FB2743D1F for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 02:44:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from howdoyouspellabc@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040319104417.14974.qmail@web21505.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.25.4.34] by web21505.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 02:44:17 PST Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 02:44:17 -0800 (PST) From: Willy Dingledorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: I need help mounting a floppy X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:44:17 -0000 Gentlemen: I am a frustrated newbie who has a good back-ground in Microsoft operating-systems, but no experience with FreeBSD. I have installed various versions of FreeBSD many times on several different computers ... but after a successful install, I keep running into brick-walls. My most recent failure came after down-loading and installing FreeBSD version 5.2 I have been unable to mount the floppy-disk. I have tried typing various commands that I found in different books, and also some that I found in the Help-files (that I down-loaded from the FreeBSD Web-site). Here are some examples (none of which work): # fdformat /dev/fd0 fdformat: open(/dev/fd0): No such file or directory # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt mount: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy msdosfs: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory #mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy mount_msdos: command not found Or, if you would rather that I take the "fstab" approach ... yes, I have tried that too ... and failed. Here are some examples (none of which work): I edited the fstab-file by inserting the following lines (each one, in turn): /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy msdosfs rw 0 0 No matter what lines I tried, the result was always similar to this: # mount /floppy msdosfs /dev/fd0: No such file or directory If it looks like I do not know what I am doing ... that is exactly right. If I type something-in and it does not work ... I do not have any idea why ... and I have no idea how to invent some new words to type. Can some-one help me ? (And remember ... before you ask for my boot-log ... I cannot mount the floppy ... so I don't know how to get a text-file out of that machine). Willy Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam