From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 21 13:45:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tungsten.btinternet.com (tungsten.btinternet.com [194.73.73.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CEDA37BE4A for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:45:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [213.1.178.231] (helo=parish.my.domain) by tungsten.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12XWSn-0001kx-00; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:45:21 +0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA08290; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:45:22 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:45:21 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: spider 90 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy mounts Message-ID: <20000321214521.E6493@parish> References: <20000321213240.50217.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000321213240.50217.qmail@hotmail.com>; from spider90@hotmail.com on Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 09:32:40PM +0000 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 09:32:40PM +0000, spider 90 wrote: > Well, I have Freebsd installed and am getting things setup pretty good. > Using Kde as my destop manager. The only issue is when I try to mount my > floppy /dev/fd0, I get a message error stating unknown system file or > special system. Exactly what command are you using to mount it? If there is an entry for it in /etc/fstab (there should be), what is it? # cat /etc/fstab # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# [snip] /dev/fd0 /pcfs msdos rw,noauto 0 0 I will probably be /floppy rather than /pcfs. If it is try # mount /floppy > I tried mounting just from the shell but same error. I can > mount the /cdrom. > I bought the complete freebsd 3rd book and it has a section on > mounting, but I am not seeing any error message noted that may arise like > this. I know the floppy drive works because I can boot from it, but can't > mount it now. What obvious thing am I missing? Any suggestions would be > appreciated:) > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Seminars, n.: From "semi" and "arse", hence, any half-assed discussion. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message