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Date:      Fri, 25 Feb 2005 05:35:57 -0800
From:      "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why can't I access my floppy disk?
Message-ID:  <20050225133557.GA18789@alzatex.com>
In-Reply-To: <985824296.20050223171137@wanadoo.fr>
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On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 05:11:37PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Loren M. Lang writes:
> 
> > Do you mean install a 1440k floppy image onto a disk or just copy a file
> > smaller than 1440k onto the msdos fs of an already formatted floppy.
> 
> Specifically, I was trying to generate an installation boot floppy for
> FreeBSD, in order to install it on my other machine (which is too old to
> boot from CD).

If you were using one of the pre-fabbed floppy images provided by
freebsd like kern.flp then you would want to write it raw to disk, not
mount it, and this is forbidden at securelevel 3.

> 
> > The latter should be ok even at securelevel 3, but the former can't
> > because that would mean open /dev/fd0 for writing other than a mount.
> 
> I got the error just trying to mount the diskette.  I tried all
> different formats of the mount and mount_msdosfs commands and they all
> either generated a syntax error or told me that the operation was not
> permitted.

I don't know why this is, it should still be possible, especially since
you can mount cdroms.  /dev/fd0 is read/write by root right?  And the
disk already had a formatted filesystem on it before you tried mounting
it?

> 
> -- 
> Anthony
> 
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