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 > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
