From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 26 5: 0:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linux.thesadmachine.org (dsl254-008-078-sea1.dsl-isp.net [216.254.8.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15E1D37B4C5 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 05:00:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 3668 invoked by uid 1001); 26 Nov 2000 13:10:18 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Nov 2000 13:10:18 -0000 Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 07:10:18 -0600 (CST) From: brian william wolter To: Manuel Enrique Garcia Cuesta Cc: Subject: Re: Cannot mount floppy (Was: No subject) In-Reply-To: <20001126121149.B621@ilex.kicelo.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i formatted the disk with fdformat /dev/fd0 and it (appeared to) work... i'm assuming that it would be formatted as a ufs filesystem. am i incorrect? peace, brian t h e S a d M a c h i n e . o r g On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Manuel Enrique Garcia Cuesta wrote: > > > === bwolter@thesadmachine.org escribia > (Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 11:14:11AM -0000): > > > i'm having trouble mounting a floppy drive... > > > > the command "mount /floppy" produces the error message: > > mount: /dev/fd0.1440 on /floppy: incorrect super block > > > > my fd0 entry in fstab is as follows: > > /dev/fd0.1440 /floppy ufs rw,noauto 1 1 > > > > anyone have any idea what i'm doing wrong? > > Looks like the floppy has no filesystem on it, or > maybe it's not a ufs one. If the floppy has been formatted > under some sort of MS/DOS you should have 'msdos' instead > of 'ufs' as the filesystem type. > > > Manuel Garcia > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message