From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 10:43:25 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 E15A937B401 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 10:43:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from x.org (62-36-169-86.dialup.uni2.es [62.36.169.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9480243E4A for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 10:43:16 -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 g98FgBhY000894; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 17:42:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root@x.org.org) Received: (from root@localhost) by x.org.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g98Fg8l0000893; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 17:42:08 +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: <200210081413.g98EDii10700@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 17:42:07 +0200 (CEST) From: xxavi@MyRealBox.com To: Jerry McAllister Subject: Re: floppy disk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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 08-Oct-2002 Jerry McAllister wrote: > >> > # mount /dev/fd0c /drives/fd >> grep: /etc/vfstab: No such file or directory >> grep: /etc/vfstab: No such file or directory >> mount: /dev/fd0c: Device not configured >> >> >> *** mount: /dev/fd0c: Device not configured *** >> >> >> hi, if the order "mount" means that the device is not >> configured,it has to be configured, isn't it?? so, how it has >> to be done? > > Often the 'Device not configured' message appears to mean that > you do not have a floppy disk in the drive (or a tape in a tape drive). > > It can also mean that you have to go in to the /dev > directory and do a './MAKEDEV xxx' for it where xxx is the device. > > Normally you would not actually do a mount for a floppy unless you > have a disk that has a file system built on it. A lot of times > people just copy things directly to or from the device using 'dd' and > in this case you don't actually do a mount. But, if you write a floppy > don't make a file system on the disk and mount it, things like grep > and ls won't work on it. There are no files for them to look at, just > a glob of data. > > (Actually, I have been having trouble with many machines writing to > DAT tape drives (DDS-3 and DDS-4) using dd (or cp) when tar and dump > work just fine. But, that is another story and I should post some > questions on that separately.) > > ////jerry > >> >> 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 Hi, my problem is that I'm trying to install the floppy disk but it seems it's not working, so I can't copy anything and do anything with it. What I would like to sort out is how do I install the flopy disk in the computer system. does anybody know how to do it, having attention to the error it says? Thanx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message