From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 7:59: 4 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 362AF37B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 07:59:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96AA743E4A for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 07:59:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g9LEwxh13167; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:58:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200210211458.g9LEwxh13167@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: floppy device busy To: tcooper1@telusplanet.net (Terry Cooper) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:58:59 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <001801c2791a$df4273e0$fb69cecd@donatev49iknkl> from "Terry Cooper" at Oct 21, 2002 08:59:43 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > I was trying to create a bootable floppy from using a script I found from > http://www.svbug.com/developer/documentation/handbook/handbook139.html > > and well it failed. Big newbie surprize. grrrrrrrrrr. Well now I get this > error after I modified the script. > > fdformat: /dev/fd0: Device busy > Bad floppy, please use a newone Were you CDed to something on the floppy or did you have some file there open? ////jerry > > I rebooted my computer to fix it but there must be a simple command to fix > this. > > > 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