From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 21 9:15:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axel.truedestiny.net (a185066.upc-a.chello.nl [62.163.185.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FF3837B41C for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 09:15:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by axel.truedestiny.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7C80949AB2; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:15:54 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:15:54 +0200 From: Axel Scheepers To: Ali Nasseh Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with mounting floopy Message-ID: <20020421181554.G82499@mars.thuis> Reply-To: Axel Scheepers References: <20020421160720.28674.qmail@web10303.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020421160720.28674.qmail@web10303.mail.yahoo.com>; from a_nasseh@yahoo.com on Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 09:07:20AM -0700 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 Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 09:07:20AM -0700, Ali Nasseh wrote: > hi, > i can see my floppy device driver -fd0- at > /dev and /dev/fd but i can't mount the floppy > with this command: > mount /dev/fd0 The command syntax is wrong, see man mount first. mount /dev/fd0 /mnt should mount it on /mnt Don't forget to unmount before you eject the disk! ;-) > or > mount /dev//fd/fd0 > ( the mount point is / ) > i don't know why there must be a bunch of > drivers at /dev and /dev/fd like fd, fd0, fds0,...? These aren't drivers but the specify disklabels in a freebsd slice, i.e.: /dev/ad0s1a ad0 = IDE drive 0 s1 = FreeBSD slice 1 a = the partition, a for /, b for swap.c whole disk, d-z user defined See the handbook for lots of interesting stuff about using FreeBSD > > --a. nasseh > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more > http://games.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Gr, -- Axel Scheepers UNIX System Administrator email: axel@axel.truedestiny.net a.scheepers@iae.nl http://axel.truedestiny.net/~axel ------------------------------------------ Distinctive, adj.: A different color or shape than our competitors. ------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message