From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 5 10:20:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2537637BDC2 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:17:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12yxtF-000AFT-00; Mon, 05 Jun 2000 15:30:05 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12yxtF-000Ikq-00; Mon, 05 Jun 2000 15:30:05 +0100 Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:30:05 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Kevin Weiss , Bruce Burden Cc: tyler@wapvi.bc.ca, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question Message-ID: <20000605153005.H42325@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <200006041929.MAA12247@viper.wapvi.bc.ca> <200006050527.AAA07160@sullivan.realtime.net> <200006041929.MAA12247@viper.wapvi.bc.ca> <0003694394fee644_mailit@smtp.jump.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <0003694394fee644_mailit@smtp.jump.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kevin Weiss wrote: > 1) Create a floppy mount directory (I use /floppy with a 755 chmod) > 2) Edit /etc/fstab and add the following line: > > #Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# > /dev/fd0c /floppy msdos rw,noauto 0 0 > > 3) Using the root account, I just mount the floppy: > > ns# mount /floppy > > This of assumes you have the MSDOS file system support in your kernel. Since when does it assume that? AFAIK it will load the module on demand if msdosfs is not in the kernel. It certainly does for me, on the very rare occasions I must use a messdos filesystem. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message