Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 17:25:59 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Chris Hill <jchill@dgsys.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install *actually* friendly Message-ID: <199808050025.RAA04543@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Aug 1998 18:21:52 EDT." <v03007800b1ed30dc8847@[204.97.64.155]>
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>Oh yeah, one more thing... > >4. Since FreeBSD runs on PC hardware, I would have thought the default >configuration would be set up to deal with all the "normal" devices one >might expect to find on a PC. Although I don't anticipate using the floppy >drive much if at all, still, it *is* there. I would have liked not to have >had to manually edit my /etc/fstab just to be able to use my floppy drive. /etc/fstab is mainly for filesystems that you want mounted at boot time. This is usually not desired with floppies. One normally just "mount"s them by hand when needed (e.g. mount /dev/fd0a /mnt). -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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