From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 04:53:42 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 3A20216A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 04:53:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.u4eatech.com (blackhole.u4eatech.com [195.188.241.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F54543D49 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 04:53:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from richard.williamson@u4eatech.com) Received: (from filter@localhost) by mail.u4eatech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id i2MCreq31467 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:53:40 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: mail.u4eatech.com: filter set sender to richard.williamson@u4eatech.com using -f Received: from apus.u4eatech.com (unknown [172.30.20.100]) by mail.u4eatech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 666EE1577D6 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:53:37 +0000 (GMT) Message-Id: <6.0.3.0.2.20040322124314.024bd440@cygnus> X-Sender: richard@cygnus X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.3.0 Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:47:25 +0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Richard P. Williamson" In-Reply-To: <20040322122838.GA88223@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.c o.uk> References: <20040322114114.66792.qmail@web21506.mail.yahoo.com> <6.0.3.0.2.20040322115432.024b97b0@cygnus> <20040322122838.GA88223@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_01,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES autolearn=ham version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Subject: Re: 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 12:53:42 -0000 At 12:28 22/03/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: >On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:56:59AM +0000, Richard P. Williamson wrote: >> At 11:41 22/03/2004, Willy Dingledorf wrote: >> >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 >> >> >> cd /dev >> sh MAKEDEV fd0 >> >> because it looks like the fd0 floppy device doesn't exist. Maybe when >> you installed the downrev'd version, it created the /dev/fd0 when it >> didn't find it. If you look in the booting system, is /dev/fd0 there >> now? > >Unfortunately that won't help the OP at all: he has the floppy working >correctly under 4.9, but his aim was to be able to use the floppy >drive under 5.2.1, and your instructions won't work because: > > * MAKEDEV is gone from 5.x, which now uses devfs stuff instead to > dynamically create all the device nodes corresponding to the > available hardware. Ah. My bad. I shut up now. Actually, it looks like I blindly ignored/missed the original 5.x reference. My brain is stuck on 4.8. rip