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From: Jeff Kletsky <jeff+freebsd@spotlife.com>
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Subject: bin/35925: fixit floppy cannot be mounted on USB drive
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>Number:         35925
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       fixit floppy cannot be mounted on USB drive
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Mar 15 08:00:03 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jeff Kletsky
>Release:        4.5-RELEASE
>Organization:
SpotLife
>Environment:
>Description:
The bootable CD or floppies with 4.5-RELEASE do not provide a method for mounting the 'fixit' environment from any source other than /dev/fd0 (or the cdrom).  Current PCs without "legacy" support use USB floppies which appear as /dev/da0.  


>How-To-Repeat:
Observed on Sony VAIO PCG-SRX7E/P by booting from 4.5-RELEASE floppies and selecting fixit option from sysinstall.

Previously reported to mailing list:

Date:      Sun, 25 Nov 2001 00:34:59 -0500
From:      Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   fixit floppy and USB floppies
Message-ID:  <20011125003459.A13872@pir.net>

Ever since I got my Z505HS I havn't been able to use fixit floppies
with it, since it has a USB floppy drive. The drive is detected, but
as da0 not fd0.

Any chance that we could have an option in the option screen to set
the device for a floppy drive or something similar to let me use a
fixit floppy from a different device ?
>Fix:
* Change sysinstall to allow (at least) /dev/da0
  (Note that this would still be an issue if the unit has internal or
   other scbus devices)

* Consider allowing NFS mount of fixit filesystems
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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