From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 03:41:14 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 82ED116A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 03:41:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from web21506.mail.yahoo.com (web21506.mail.yahoo.com [66.163.169.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 516D943D3F for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 03:41:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from howdoyouspellabc@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040322114114.66792.qmail@web21506.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.25.4.34] by web21506.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 03:41:14 PST Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 03:41:14 -0800 (PST) From: Willy Dingledorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: 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: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:41:14 -0000 Gentlemen, This note is a continuation of a thread which started last week ... and actually, the problem is almost resolved. The problem began when a newbie (me) downloaded and installed FreeBSD version 5.2, and then was unable to mount a floppy disk. ************************************ Richard Williamson wrote: Can you give us the Output of $ls /dev/fd0 -------------------------- Yes ... here it is: ls: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory ************************************ Stephen Liu wrote: Please try ls -l /dev | grep fd0 -------------------------- My PC output is: # ************************************ Stephen Liu wrote: Did you have /mnt created. Please try # ls -l / | grep mnt -------------------------- My PC output is: drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 10 21:44 mnt ************************************ Stephen Liu wrote: Did you have /floppy created. Try # ls / | grep floppy -------------------------- My PC output is: drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 16 03:53 floppy ************************************ Kevin Kinsey wrote: What do you see when you type this from the console? $grep fd /var/log/dmesg.today -------------------------- My PC output mentions fdc0 several times. For example: pci0: at device 10.0 (no driver attached) pci0: at device 12.0 (no driver attached) fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (1 ports) : : psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID/0 fdc0: cannot reserve I/0 port range (1 ports) : : orm0: