From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 3 06:34:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA29010 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 06:34:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spoon.beta.com (root@[199.165.180.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA29005 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 06:33:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spoon.beta.com (mcgovern@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spoon.beta.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA02963 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 09:33:51 -0400 Message-Id: <199609031333.JAA02963@spoon.beta.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: MFS, floppies,and sound cards (oh, my!) Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 09:33:50 -0400 From: "Brian J. McGovern" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Couple of quick questions that I figured I'd batch to save some bandwidth. Firstly, I have been tinkering around with the concept of boot floppies. I'm almost 100% happy with what I have, with one exception. When I run a "full version" from a hard disk, I can create a MFS disk using mount_mfs -s /dev/wd0s1b /mnt (as the documentation says it should work). However, the problem comes wherein the boot floppy that I'm working on has no swap. Doing something like mount_mfs -s /dev/fd0b /mnt doesn't work, usually claiming that /dev/fd0b either doesn't exist (if I give it a different minor number than fd0a), or that its already in use (if it has the same minor number as fd0a). If I pull up the disklabel,the three partitions (a,b,c - which all take up the whole disk) are considered "unused". So, the question is, since I have a machine with 8-16MB of RAM that will never use it all (since I'm booting off a floppy and running one small application), how could I go about creating an MFS filesystem of n megabytes that I could use to store some temporary files without filling up the floppy? Also, I've seen some recent chatter about a Mozart sound card that has to go through some special initialization (which appears (according to Jordan) to be undocumented). I own a Reveal SC400 sound card that also appears to have to run an initialization program to get up and going. Is this card supported (does anyone know?), or should I go about figuring out what it is so I can do it myself? Thanks, as always. -Brian