I have loaded FreeBSD on a machine to try it out. I am having trouble mounting the floppy drive. There does not appear to be a line for it in fstab and the mnt directory is empty. What do I need to do?
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I have loaded FreeBSD on a machine to try it out. I am having trouble mounting the floppy drive. There does not appear to be a line for it in fstab and the mnt directory is empty. What do I need to do?
This is quoted from http://www.freebsddiary.org/floppy.php:Quote:
Originally Posted by copycon
Tell me if it works.Quote:
You might have seen the article on quickly mounting the CD-ROM. Well, here's one for your floppy. First, create a mount point for your floppy:
mkdir /fdd
Then add this line to you /etc/fstab file:
/dev/fd0 /fdd ufs rw,noauto 0 0
With such a line, you can mount/unmount your fdd with just the following commands:
mount /fdd
umount /fdd
it worked in that it tries to mount the drive then I get this error
I am thinking that the file system is not listed correctly should it be listed as FAT instead of ufs. Or does BSD not recognize FAT and do I need to do aCode:mount: /dev/fd0 on /fdd: incorrect super block
Code:mkfs -t ufs /dev/fd0
Ah, tryQuote:
Originally Posted by copycon
Code:mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /fdd
What I did was change the line that I added to fstab from ufs to msdos now it mounts perfectly with the command:
Thasnk you for the direction that is exactly what I needed.Code:mount /fdd
I just tired the following it worked fine :)
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /fdd
However you will need to mount and unmount for every floppy you put into it :)
fdformat -f 1440 /dev/fd0
newfs_msdos /dev/fd0
this is how i prepare a floppy for use in the transfer of files to a windows machine. i don't know if it is required to specify block size argument at tail of fdformat string; bs=36. or 1024. i still aint fully up to snuff on that. maybe somebody could help me out with that?
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /floopy is how i do itQuote:
Originally Posted by sether
He said "floopy"! huh huh, uh yeah....floopy
FLOOOPY!
hehe heh heh!
hmm!
floopy! floopy! floopy!!
ARRRRRR!
um. shut up!
or something...
hmmm hmm
brrr-aaa-aa-wrr
SMACK!
AAHHH!
um...?Quote:
Originally Posted by bsdunix