From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 9 18:21:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1478A37BBE5 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 18:21:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 75551 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2000 01:21:24 -0000 Received: from theory7.physics.iisc.ernet.in (qmailr@144.16.71.127) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 10 Jun 2000 01:21:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 17693 invoked by uid 211); 10 Jun 2000 01:21:22 -0000 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 06:51:22 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Boucher Eric Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting floppy drive Message-ID: <20000610065122.A17646@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: Boucher Eric , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <394194E8.FC9317F8@sympatico.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <394194E8.FC9317F8@sympatico.ca>; from eric.boucher24@sympatico.ca on Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 09:07:52PM -0400 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.14 alpha X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Boucher Eric said on Jun 9, 2000 at 21:07:52: > Hi, > > I wanted to know how to mount my floppy drive A: > > I tried mount /dev/fd0 /A > > with a file A already created, but it didn't work. It would be helpful if you gave the error messages too. /A should be a directory, not a regular file. Also try the flag "-t msdos" (assuming it's a dos-formatted floppy). Also, you can only do this as root. For ordinary-user-level access, try the mtools port /usr/ports/emulators/mtools for msdos-formatted floppies. Also see the FAQ entry http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#AEN2538 R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message