From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 4 22: 5:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail13.jump.net (mail13.jump.net [207.8.30.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 979B037B8FA for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 22:05:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kweiss@jump.net) Received: from kamui.animeniac.com (ns.animeniac.com [216.30.96.14]) by mail13.jump.net (8.9.3/) with SMTP id AAA16628; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 00:07:30 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: question From: Kevin Weiss Reply-To: Kevin Weiss In-Reply-To: <200006041929.MAA12247@viper.wapvi.bc.ca> Message-ID: <0003694394fee644_mailit@smtp.jump.net> References: <200006041929.MAA12247@viper.wapvi.bc.ca> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 00:11:53 +0000 X-Mailer: BeatWare Mail-It 2.0.4 X-BeOS-Platform: Intel or clone X-Priority: 3 (Normal) To: tyler@wapvi.bc.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I personally do the following: 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. Hope this helps. Kevin Weiss kweiss@jump.net > >this might be stupid, but how do i moint i mean >mount a floppy under freebsd? i know how under linux. i got >it installed, it turned out to be a bad floppyu drive. > > >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