Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 22:05:32 -0500 From: "Anthony E. Coley" <anthony@sohopros.com> To: "Michael P. Sale" <mike@merchantsnet.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting floppy file systems Message-ID: <352AE97B.EE4A11E5@sohopros.com> References: <01bd6294$fe4d42c0$5006bccc@708644668>
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Michael P. Sale wrote: > Yes!, Yes!, Yes! > > I was most certainly missing the point. I did not (apparently) correctly > understand that the mounting process could actually use any available > directory (or is that file system). I assumed (don't say it) that there was > something special about /mnt. Not completely understanding /etc/fstab did > not help much either. > > Knowing this now, pg 211 clearly states that one is to mount the floppy on > FILE SYSTEM /A. I suspect Greg figured that even a newbie would understand > that mounting a floppy on /A would require a file system /A. Maybe I'm too > used to the term "directory"!! Or again, maybe there is more info on this > earlier in the book that would have clued me in. > > I think I still believe that the page could supply a little more info (It's > so easy to judge other peoples work), but with such a basic concept I can't > believe that I didn't just gloss over it somewhere in the previous 12 > chapters. I'll keep looking. > > Thanks all, > > Mike > > ---------------------------------------------- > Michael P. Sale > MerchantsNet.Com > mike@merchantsnet.com > www.merchantsnet.com > ---------------------------------------------- > "Humility has no equal in the > battle for knowledge" > -- > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> > To: Michael P. Sale <mike@merchantsnet.com>; freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> > Date: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 1:58 PM > Subject: Re: mounting floppy file systems > > >On Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 05:24:12PM -0700, Michael P. Sale wrote: > >> After buying a little sense, I did some searching and came up with the > >> /mnt instead. Works just fine now, though I'm still searching for how > >> to get the /A set up as well.. > > > >I don't have the book to hand. I'll skip most of the standard questions, > >since I've seen a few replies to your message cover them. > > > >I think you've missed an important point. When you mount a filesystem > >(whether it's from a floppy, Zip or hard disk) you need to have a > >pre-existing directory on which to mount it. > > > >If the directory /a does not exist, you will first need to create it. > > > > # mkdir /a > > # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /a > > > >will probably work. > > > >I suspect the /mnt directory existed, and the /a directory did not (it's > >possible a previous section of the book showed its creation, but, as I > >say, I don't have the book to hand). > > > >/mnt is an informal convention about where to mount things. For example, > >I have 1 floppy drive, 1 CDROM and 1 ZIP drive in my machine. I have > > > > /mnt/floppy > > /mnt/cdrom > > /mnt/zip > > > >set up, and mount on to there with commands like > > > > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > > mount -t msdos /dev/cd0 /mnt/cdrom > > mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s4 /mnt/zip > > > >as appropriate. > > > >If the directories don't exist, this happens > > > > # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /non_existant_dir > > mount: /non_existant_dir: No such file or directory > > > >Make sense? > > > >N > >-- > >Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache > >Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need > >Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message So what does your /etc/fstab look like? I'm also wondering about the /A. I have been using the /mnt to mount floppies. Thanks, Anthony .... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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