From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 6 14:44:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA13820 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:44:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ms1.dgsys.com (ms1.dgsys.com [204.97.64.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA13649 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:43:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jchill@dgsys.com) Received: from [204.97.64.155] (gueuze.dgsys.com [204.97.64.155]) by ms1.dgsys.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA06424 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 17:42:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Sender: jchill@pop.dgsys.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 17:45:37 -0400 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Chris Hill Subject: Re: Install *actually* friendly Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeremy Shaffner wrote, >On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Chris Hill wrote: > >[snip] >> >> ... 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`. That's exactly what I did, and exactly why I did it. I apologize for the poor wording of my Gripe. -- Chris Hill jchill@dgsys.com [place witty saying here] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message