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From: "Terry Cooper" <tcooper1@telusplanet.net>
To: "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: floppy device busy
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:19:50 -0700
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Not sure, I used a script to create the floppy. Is there a way to tell? Can
I just unmount rfd0 (floppy drive) ? Or is that going to leave a file open
still?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To: "Terry Cooper" <tcooper1@telusplanet.net>
Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 7:58 AM
Subject: Re: floppy device busy


> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
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