From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 14 17:58:32 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 1104D37B400 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 17:58:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (sa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB4E143E7B for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 17:58:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Received: from there (dialup-8.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.137]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g7F0wLL43335; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:28:23 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Message-Id: <200208150058.g7F0wLL43335@tierzero.apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: "Oh merciful god!" , Subject: Re: Accessing my floppy drive Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:27:43 +0930 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <000801c24182$1f3e5d90$0621b83f@rahj> In-Reply-To: <000801c24182$1f3e5d90$0621b83f@rahj> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 07:27, Oh merciful god! wrote: > # /sbin/mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt > > This command came from a FreeBSD turotial from the web and was done under > as root. There is nothing wrong with this command provided it is invoked by root. Two simple problems occur from time to time: 1. Try another floppy disk (you DID have a disk in the drive when trying to mount?). Floppy disks have a habit of becoming unreadable. 2. Look at your BIOS - does it recognise your floppy drive? If IT doesn't, neither will FreeBSD. If you still have trouble, contact the list again. -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message