From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 19 05:48:19 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 7D99B16A4CF for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 05:48:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDA5B43D2D for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 05:48:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:48:38 -0600 Message-ID: <405AF9BB.4040506@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:46:35 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Willy Dingledorf References: <20040319104417.14974.qmail@web21505.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040319104417.14974.qmail@web21505.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Mar 2004 13:48:48.0734 (UTC) FILETIME=[E7CD1FE0:01C40DB8] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 13:48:19 -0000 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 > >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 > > > > > 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: 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.