Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 16:36:15 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: darryl@osborne-ind.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floppy disk - device not configured error Message-ID: <200311182136.hAILaGs04901@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <028901c3ae18$149c46a0$0701a8c0@darryl> from "Darryl Hoar" at Nov 18, 2003 03:08:13 PM
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Technical Director [mailto:trodat@ultratrends.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:45 PM
> > To: Darryl Hoar
> > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: floppy disk - device not configured error
> >
> > Greetings back,
> >
> > You could try the following:
> >
> > dd if=./kern.flp of=/dev/fd0a
> >
> > That might fix your problem.
> >
> > R.
> >
> > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Darryl Hoar wrote:
> >
> > > Greetings,
> > > I am running FreeBSD 4.7-stable. I am
> > > trying to make new boot floppies so I
> > > can install Freebsd on another machine.
> > > When I try to:
> > > dd if=./kern.flp of=/dev/fd0
> > >
> > > I get a "Device not configured" Error.
> > > A good, new floppy is in the drive. I have
> > > tried several new floppies. Same result.
> > >
> > > Checked dmesg and the floppy controller
> > > is recognized, etc.
> > >
> > > what am I not doing right ?
Is the floppy formatted? Used fdformat for that or do it
on a MS machine.
Also, write to /dev/fd0c or /dev/rfd0c.
Here is just what I do and have done many times.
First format two floppies for 1.4 meg using fdformat
-> 'fdformat -f 1440' is enough. It will prompt for the rest
then
-> 'dd if=boot-image of=/dev/rfd0c' for boot floppy
(change floppy :)
and
-> 'dd if=mfs-image of=/dev/rfd0c' for mfs floppy
The only other thing I can think of is maybe you don't have the device
made correctly.
Check it and use MAKEDEV to make them
(what happens after you get to 5.x I don't know yet, haven't been there)
do cd /dev
ls -l *fd0*
if you don't find an 'rfd0c' then make one
./MAKEDEV fd0 should do it
You might need to delete some stuff first as in
rm *fdo*
But, really, these should all be there because the system normally
makes these by default. If they aren't there, something pooped
along the line somewhere.
Good luck,
////jerry
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > -Darryl
>
> thanks. I tried your suggestion, but received the same message.
> Any other ideas ?
>
> thanks
> Darryl
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