From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Apr 7 13:59:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA14961 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 13:59:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA14720 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 13:58:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA05880; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 20:58:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Message-ID: <19980407205829.45527@nothing-going-on.org> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 20:58:29 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: "Michael P. Sale" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting floppy file systems References: <01bd61bb$7d113420$3206bccc@708644668> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <01bd61bb$7d113420$3206bccc@708644668>; from Michael P. Sale on Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 05:24:12PM -0700 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message