From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 6 9:22: 1 2002 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 9AB7C37B401 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 09:21:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from x.org (62-37-163-234.dialup.uni2.es [62.37.163.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEBF743E6A for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 09:21:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@x.org.org) Received: from x.org.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by x.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g95KAOG7082176 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 22:10:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root@x.org.org) Received: (from root@localhost) by x.org.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g95KAMi7082175 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 22:10:22 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 22:10:21 +0200 (CEST) From: xxavi@MyRealBox.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: floppy disk Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 05-Oct-2002 Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > xxavi@MyRealBox.com writes: > > [huge quote] > >> >> > grep: /etc/vfstab: No such file or directory > ... >> Hi, what do you mean when you say filesystem? > > (You could have asked that question without quoting most of the thread.) > > Anyway, I just wanted to guess that "vfstab" means "Virtual FileSystem > TABle", which I think is an (optional?) feature of FreeBSD 5.0 (AKA > CURRENT). It would probably be better for a beginner to run > 4.6.2-RELEASE or maybe -STABLE, if possible. > > I agree that it sounds like "file $(which mount)" will indicate that > "mount" is a script, but I don't know what to do with that info. > > As for > grep: /etc/vfstab: No such file or directory > grep: /etc/vfstab: No such file or directory > mount: /dev/fd0: Device not configured > > We need someone who knows the virtual device scheme to know > how /dev/fd0 would be created/supported/whatever. Or is > /drives/fd the virtual device? no, that's for the directory where i want to mount the diskettery The mount command want's that > to be an existing directory. Is the virtual device configured > by kernel build configuration, or boot-time, or device-need-time? > I don't underestand that question because i don't know what are you talking about. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message