From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 23 9:22:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27EC537B4A0 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 09:22:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g5NGLwr19677; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 12:21:58 -0400 Message-ID: <3D15F71C.8010601@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 12:28:12 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ganesh Kumar Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Urgent - ports install error - pls help ! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ganesh Kumar wrote: >> From: Bill Moran >> Do you have a net connection from this machine? It looks like you're >> unable >> to connect to the Internet to download the necessary files. mkisofs >> may be >> on the CD. Read this page and see if it helps you: >> http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ports-using.html > > No.I dont have a net connection to this machine.I just downloaded the > mkisofs.tgz file from the ports directory of a freeBSD ftp site.Could > some one let me know how to copy this file ? > > My floppy drive is Sony - NEC clone. > > /dev/fd0 doesnt work(tried all the combinations). Is it an MS-DOS formatted floppy? Did you try mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt What error message do you get when you try to mount it? Is there a fd0 device in the /dev directory? You may have to run MAKEDEV. If you look through dmesg output, do you see your floppy drive as probled and detected? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message