I need help mounting a floppy

2004-03-22 Thread Willy Dingledorf
Gentlemen, This note is a continuation of a thread which started last week ... and actually, the problem is almost resolved. The problem began when a newbie (me) downloaded and installed FreeBSD version 5.2, and then was unable to mount a floppy disk.

Re: I need help mounting a floppy

2004-03-22 Thread Richard P. Williamson
At 11:41 22/03/2004, Willy Dingledorf wrote: The problem began when a newbie (me) downloaded and installed FreeBSD version 5.2, and then was unable to mount a floppy disk. Richard Williamson wrote: Can you give us the Output of $ls /dev/fd0

Re: I need help mounting a floppy

2004-03-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:56:59AM +, Richard P. Williamson wrote: At 11:41 22/03/2004, Willy Dingledorf wrote: The problem began when a newbie (me) downloaded and installed FreeBSD version 5.2, and then was unable to mount a floppy disk. Richard

Re: I need help mounting a floppy

2004-03-22 Thread Richard P. Williamson
At 12:28 22/03/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:56:59AM +, Richard P. Williamson wrote: At 11:41 22/03/2004, Willy Dingledorf wrote: The problem began when a newbie (me) downloaded and installed FreeBSD version 5.2, and then was unable to mount a floppy disk.

I need help mounting a floppy

2004-03-19 Thread Willy Dingledorf
Gentlemen: I am a frustrated newbie who has a good back-ground in Microsoft operating-systems, but no experience with FreeBSD. I have installed various versions of FreeBSD many times on several different computers ... but after a successful install, I keep running into brick-walls. My

Re: I need help mounting a floppy

2004-03-19 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Willy Dingledorf wrote: Gentlemen: I am a frustrated newbie who has a good back-ground in Microsoft operating-systems, but no experience with FreeBSD. I have installed various versions of FreeBSD many times on several different computers ... but after a successful install, I keep running

Re: I need help mounting a floppy

2004-03-19 Thread Richard . Williamson
Willy Dingledorf wrote: fdformat: open(/dev/fd0): No such file or directory mount: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory msdosfs: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory msdosfs /dev/fd0: No such file or directory I'd try Occam... Can you give us the output of $ls /dev/fd0 regards, rip

I need help mounting a floppy

2004-03-18 Thread Willy Dingledorf
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Re: I need help mounting a floppy

2004-03-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
From the FAQ document: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#REMOVABLE-DRIVES ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]