From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 6 08:43:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA24384 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 08:43:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA24360 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 08:43:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jer@jorsm.com) Received: from localhost (jer@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA13032; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 10:42:28 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 10:42:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner To: Chris Hill cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install *actually* friendly In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Chris Hill wrote: [snip] > > 4. Since FreeBSD runs on PC hardware, I would have thought the default > configuration would be set up to deal with all the "normal" devices one > might expect to find on a PC. Although I don't anticipate using the floppy > drive much if at all, still, it *is* there. I would have liked not to have > had to manually edit my /etc/fstab just to be able to use my floppy drive. > You don't have to. Using floppies requires mounting them after you put them in and unmounting them before you take them out. Only reason (Aside from never removing the floppy) you would put the floppy in /etc/fstab would be with a noauto option so you could just `mount /floppy` instead of the longer `mount /dev/fd0 /floppy`. -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message