On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 09:27:48AM +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > I'm trying to mount a floppy image following the instructions on: > > http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/beginners/mdconfig_mount_images > > ____________________________________ > > To mount a floppy image, create a virtual device, /dev/md0, for the > floppy image. > > # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /tmp/boot.flp -u 0 > > ____________________________________ > > I had to touch /tmp/boot.flp to make it work
That is strange. Is /tmp/boot.flp an existing image? If so, what size is it?
Note that is you use touch on a non-existing file, it will create a file 0
bytes long! If you try to mount that, you'll get an error, because there is no
data to be read.
> Now mount the virtual device.
> # mount /dev/mnt0 /mnt
>
> I believe there's a typo here should be /dev/md0
Yes.
> I get:
>
> mount /dev/md0 /mnt
> mount: /dev/md0 : Input/output error
>
> I have no idea what to do now!
If you want to _create_ a floppy image, you can use:
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1k count=1440 of=boot.flp
Then use mdconfig to make an md device out of it. Of course you'll have to
create an msdos filesystem on it;
newfs_msdos /dev/md0
After that you can mount it and fill it with whatever you like.
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R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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