Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 20:58:29 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: "Michael P. Sale" <mike@merchantsnet.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting floppy file systems Message-ID: <19980407205829.45527@nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <01bd61bb$7d113420$3206bccc@708644668>; from Michael P. Sale on Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 05:24:12PM -0700 References: <01bd61bb$7d113420$3206bccc@708644668>
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On Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 05:24:12PM -0700, Michael P. Sale wrote:
> After buying a little sense, I did some searching and came up with the
> /mnt instead. Works just fine now, though I'm still searching for how
> to get the /A set up as well..
I don't have the book to hand. I'll skip most of the standard questions,
since I've seen a few replies to your message cover them.
I think you've missed an important point. When you mount a filesystem
(whether it's from a floppy, Zip or hard disk) you need to have a
pre-existing directory on which to mount it.
If the directory /a does not exist, you will first need to create it.
# mkdir /a
# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /a
will probably work.
I suspect the /mnt directory existed, and the /a directory did not (it's
possible a previous section of the book showed its creation, but, as I
say, I don't have the book to hand).
/mnt is an informal convention about where to mount things. For example,
I have 1 floppy drive, 1 CDROM and 1 ZIP drive in my machine. I have
/mnt/floppy
/mnt/cdrom
/mnt/zip
set up, and mount on to there with commands like
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount -t msdos /dev/cd0 /mnt/cdrom
mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s4 /mnt/zip
as appropriate.
If the directories don't exist, this happens
# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /non_existant_dir
mount: /non_existant_dir: No such file or directory
Make sense?
N
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