Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:46:35 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Willy Dingledorf <howdoyouspellabc@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I need help mounting a floppy Message-ID: <405AF9BB.4040506@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20040319104417.14974.qmail@web21505.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040319104417.14974.qmail@web21505.mail.yahoo.com>
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Willy Dingledorf wrote:
>
>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.
>
>
You ought to stop that ... pain hurts. :D
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>My most recent failure came after down-loading and installing FreeBSD version 5.2
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>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
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># mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
>mount: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory
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># mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
>msdosfs: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory
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>#mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
>mount_msdos: command not found
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>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
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Well, let's do an "optical diff" then ... what do
you see when you do this from the console?
$grep fd /var/log/dmesg.today
Should be something like:
Using $PIR table, 6 entries at 0xc00fdf10
fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> port
0x3f7,0x3f2-0
x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
and what about:
$ls / | grep mnt
That should say:
mnt/
Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.
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