Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 19:21:09 -0700 From: "Michael P. Sale" <mike@merchantsnet.com> To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mounting floppy file systems Message-ID: <01bd6294$fe4d42c0$5006bccc@708644668>
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Yes!, Yes!, Yes! I was most certainly missing the point. I did not (apparently) correctly understand that the mounting process could actually use any available directory (or is that file system). I assumed (don't say it) that there was something special about /mnt. Not completely understanding /etc/fstab did not help much either. Knowing this now, pg 211 clearly states that one is to mount the floppy on FILE SYSTEM /A. I suspect Greg figured that even a newbie would understand that mounting a floppy on /A would require a file system /A. Maybe I'm too used to the term "directory"!! Or again, maybe there is more info on this earlier in the book that would have clued me in. I think I still believe that the page could supply a little more info (It's so easy to judge other peoples work), but with such a basic concept I can't believe that I didn't just gloss over it somewhere in the previous 12 chapters. I'll keep looking. Thanks all, Mike ---------------------------------------------- Michael P. Sale MerchantsNet.Com mike@merchantsnet.com www.merchantsnet.com ---------------------------------------------- "Humility has no equal in the battle for knowledge" -- -----Original Message----- From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Michael P. Sale <mike@merchantsnet.com>; freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 1:58 PM Subject: Re: mounting floppy file systems >On Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 05:24:12PM -0700, Michael P. Sale wrote: >> After buying a little sense, I did some searching and came up with the >> /mnt instead. Works just fine now, though I'm still searching for how >> to get the /A set up as well.. > >I don't have the book to hand. I'll skip most of the standard questions, >since I've seen a few replies to your message cover them. > >I think you've missed an important point. When you mount a filesystem >(whether it's from a floppy, Zip or hard disk) you need to have a >pre-existing directory on which to mount it. > >If the directory /a does not exist, you will first need to create it. > > # mkdir /a > # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /a > >will probably work. > >I suspect the /mnt directory existed, and the /a directory did not (it's >possible a previous section of the book showed its creation, but, as I >say, I don't have the book to hand). > >/mnt is an informal convention about where to mount things. For example, >I have 1 floppy drive, 1 CDROM and 1 ZIP drive in my machine. I have > > /mnt/floppy > /mnt/cdrom > /mnt/zip > >set up, and mount on to there with commands like > > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > mount -t msdos /dev/cd0 /mnt/cdrom > mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s4 /mnt/zip > >as appropriate. > >If the directories don't exist, this happens > > # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /non_existant_dir > mount: /non_existant_dir: No such file or directory > >Make sense? > >N >-- >Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache >Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need >Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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