On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 06:41:10PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski typed:
Loren M. Lang writes:
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
Ruben de Groot writes:
1 Secure mode - the system immutable and system append-only flags may
not be turned off; disks for mounted file systems, /dev/mem,
/dev/kmem and /dev/io (if your platform has it) may not be opened
for writing; kernel modules (see kld(4)) may
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
Loren M. Lang writes:
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.
I was trying to do it with dd. I tried the same on my other system (the
one on
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 08:39:24PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes:
Why would you want to mount an MSDOS floppy on a server?
In order to copy a raw file image to the floppy.
Do you mean install a 1440k floppy image onto a disk or just copy a file
smaller
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
Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dan Nelson writes:
Is it write-protected? Securelevel too high? Check your console or
dmesg output; the kernel may be printing more info there.
No console messages that I've seen, but securelevel=3. Does
securelevel=3 prevent me from
On Feb 22, 2005, at 8:27 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dan Nelson writes:
Is it write-protected? Securelevel too high? Check your console or
dmesg output; the kernel may be printing more info there.
No console messages that I've seen, but securelevel=3.
Lowell Gilbert writes:
Yes. This is, in fact, one of the main ways in which securelevel
makes the system more secure.
OK
If you are going to run at a raised securelevel, please read
man securelevel.
I did. It doesn't say anything about not being able to mount a floppy.
Since I can mount
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes:
Why would you want to mount an MSDOS floppy on a server?
In order to copy a raw file image to the floppy.
That reduces the security and stability of your server
Not really. See above. The intent is not to leave the floppy permanently
mounted; I only needed
I put a diskette (MS-DOS) into my floppy drive and try
mount -t msdosfs /dev/fd0 /floppy
mount -o ro -t msdosfs /dev/fd0 /floppy
and various other variations, but all I get is Operation not permitted
fsck works okay. I'm logged in as root. What am I overlooking?
--
Anthony
In the last episode (Feb 22), Anthony Atkielski said:
I put a diskette (MS-DOS) into my floppy drive and try
mount -t msdosfs /dev/fd0 /floppy
mount -o ro -t msdosfs /dev/fd0 /floppy
and various other variations, but all I get is Operation not permitted
fsck works okay. I'm logged in
Dan Nelson writes:
Is it write-protected? Securelevel too high? Check your console or
dmesg output; the kernel may be printing more info there.
No console messages that I've seen, but securelevel=3. Does
securelevel=3 prevent me from mounting floppies??
--
Anthony
In the last episode (Feb 22), Anthony Atkielski said:
Dan Nelson writes:
Is it write-protected? Securelevel too high? Check your console
or dmesg output; the kernel may be printing more info there.
No console messages that I've seen, but securelevel=3. Does
securelevel=3 prevent me
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