On Friday 31 August 2007 04:01:25 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
I am trying to load a kernel module from a floppy disk (ms dos formatted).
Is there anything special I have to do to format these disks, or make
them readable? I can boot from an MS DOS startup disk (as generated by
XP) but
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:02:10PM +, Tee Nor wrote:
Booting:
FreeBSD/sparc64 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.0
([EMAIL PROTECTED], Wed Nov 2 09:45:36 UTC 2005)
bootpath=/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/SUNW,[EMAIL PROTECTED],880/[EMAIL
PROTECTED],0:a
After boot:
# mount /dev/fd/0 /mnt
try this
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
or
mount_msdosfs /dev/fd0 /mnt
if that dont work replace your floppy drive as it's bad.
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Magalhaes
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 7:34 AM
To:
Aguiar Magalhaes wrote:
Hi list,
#mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ins´t working on
the machine using free 6.0
The /mnt/floppy exists but /dev doesn´t have the fd0
file. It has the fd directory and the files 0,1 and 2
PS: #mount -t msdos /dev/fd/0 /mnt/floppy doesn´t work
How can I do it
yes this are made fresh from the fbsd ftp server. i've also checked
the distribution set in options and it is set correct (5.4-RELEASE).
the handbook only mentioned setting the Release name as far as cvsup
is concerned.
i found warning messages from tty2 though:
DEBUG: Generating /etc/fstab file
Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a compaq proliant 3000 E39 and have FreeBSD installed to a 40G IDE
drive I installed. It lets me install anyithing I want but the BIOS/Firmware
will not support booting from teh IDE HD's. I want to keep the SCSI array for
clean data on
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 03:18 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a compaq proliant 3000 E39 and have FreeBSD installed to a 40G IDE
drive I installed. It lets me install anyithing I want but the
BIOS/Firmware will not support booting from
Daniela said:
Recently, my floppy drive isn't working properly. The kernel often panics on
unmount of a UFS floppy, and sometimes also while reading or writing an
ordinary DOS-formatted floppy. Very often, the data is corrupted, but when
formatting the floppy, it shows no errors. And once I
Aggelos wrote:
I just intalled freebsd 5.2.1-RELEASE, and cannot access my floppy disk
drive, as you can see from attached dmesg.
(fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range...)
I just realised that booting with ACPI disabled the floppy drive is
properly configured.
Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The
On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 15:34:45 -0400, Tom Parquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was wandering through Comp-USA this morning and I noticed a floppy
drive on the shelf that had sockets for other memory devices. e.g.
secure digital cards. I found it on their web site at:
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 01:20:24AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
Well, I followed one suggestion that the
kern.flp mighthave been a dud. I re-formatted,
and re dd'd ./kern.flp onto the floppy. (It's a
new floppy, BTW.) After about
Srinivasa Kanduru [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I happenned to install 5.1 FreeBSD. I couldn't mount floppy disk. I noticed
that /dev/fd0 did not exist. I tried doing a mknod using character device 9, 0
for fd0 but it doesn't work. The floppy devnode is not permitted to be created.
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 05:24:52PM -0500, Ken Seggerman wrote:
If I recall correctly, I have installed a little utility (on 4.3) that
mounts, reads from and writes to an ordinary DOS-formatted floppy and uses
a DOS-like syntax.
I don't remember what it's called or how to find it.
I tried
You do not need any special port application to do that, You can
config FBSD to allow that function by doing this.
Edit /etc/fstab and add this line
/dev/fd0/a msdos rw,noauto,longnames 0 0
Then as root issue this command
mkdir /a
Reboot your system
Now
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Erik Trulsson wrote:
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 05:24:52PM -0500, Ken Seggerman wrote:
...
I tried the Handbook, the FAQ and pkg_info.
emulators/mtools perhaps?
YES! That's it.
Thank you.
Ken Seggerman
___
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Thanks, so much!
This stuff is coming back to me.
Ken
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, fbsd_user wrote:
You do not need any special port application to do that, You can
config FBSD to allow that function by doing this.
Edit /etc/fstab and add this line
/dev/fd0/a msdos
Hi,
Yes looks like there are some problems with the floppy drive in this version ..
the floppy drive as such works fine with netbsd and linux on other partitions.
I am posting the relevent portions of dmesg which gave some errors ..
..
FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 5 02:55:42 GMT 2003
Hey,
Try mount_msdos /dev/fd0 yourfolder
Srinivasa Kanduru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I happenned to install 5.1 FreeBSD. I couldn't mount floppy disk. I noticed
that /dev/fd0 did not exist. I tried doing a mknod using character device 9, 0
for fd0 but it doesn't work. The floppy devnode is
Darryl Hoar wrote:
Checked dmesg and the floppy controller
is recognized, etc.
It's often helpful to paste your dmesg into your question with problems
of this sort. From my dmesg:
fdc0: Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone) port
0x3f7,0x3f0-0
x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fdc0:
-Original Message-
From: Peter Risdon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 4:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: floppy disk - device not configured error
Darryl Hoar wrote:
Checked dmesg and the floppy controller
is recognized
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Darryl Hoar
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 8:57 AM
To: 'Peter Risdon'
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: floppy disk - device not configured error
-Original Message-
From: Peter Risdon
-Original Message-
From: Peter Risdon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 4:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: floppy disk - device not configured error
Darryl Hoar wrote:
Checked dmesg and the floppy controller
Greetings back,
You could try the following:
dd if=./kern.flp of=/dev/fd0a
That might fix your problem.
R.
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Darryl Hoar wrote:
Greetings,
I am running FreeBSD 4.7-stable. I am
trying to make new boot floppies so I
can install Freebsd on another machine.
When I try
-Original Message-
From: Technical Director [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:45 PM
To: Darryl Hoar
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: floppy disk - device not configured error
Greetings back,
You could try the following:
dd if=./kern.flp
-Original Message-
From: Technical Director [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:45 PM
To: Darryl Hoar
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: floppy disk - device not configured error
Greetings back,
You could try the following:
dd
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Jerry McAllister wrote:
Is the floppy formatted? Used fdformat for that or do it
on a MS machine.
Also, write to /dev/fd0c or /dev/rfd0c.
Here is just what I do and have done many times.
First format two floppies for 1.4 meg using fdformat
-
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Jerry McAllister wrote:
Is the floppy formatted? Used fdformat for that or do it
on a MS machine.
Also, write to /dev/fd0c or /dev/rfd0c.
Here is just what I do and have done many times.
First format two floppies for 1.4 meg using fdformat
Check it and use MAKEDEV to make them
(what happens after you get to 5.x I don't know yet,
haven't been there)
docd /dev
ls -l *fd0*
if you don't find an 'rfd0c' then make one
./MAKEDEV fd0 should do it
You might need to delete some stuff
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Technical Director wrote:
Maybe I'm wrong but isin't dd a raw write to the device when used
in this way? Hence a pre-formatting is not required?
A floppy will still need a low-level format before the first use.
Preformatting may help I'm not to sure, I know that I have
Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-1] Florin Betivoiu wrote:
Hello.
I am trying to mount a floppy. Don't know what is it that I do wrong,
cause it doens't work... I have asked for help before, even here, but the
problem still is not solved :( .
I am using FreeBSD
You've mixed up your input and output files when you run dd. This is
what it should be:
dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/fd0
You had them swapped, so you were reading the floppy and writing to
/dev/null.
- Jamie
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-1] Florin Betivoiu wrote:
Hello.
I am
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-1] Florin Betivoiu wrote:
Hello.
I am trying to mount a floppy. Don't know what is it that I do wrong,
cause it doens't work... I have asked for help before, even here, but the
problem still is not solved :( .
I am using FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. The same happend
Jamie wrote:
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-1] Florin Betivoiu wrote:
Hello.
I am trying to mount a floppy. Don't know what is it that I do wrong,
cause it doens't work... I have asked for help before, even here, but the
problem still is not solved :( .
I am using FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. The same
I am trying to mount a floppy. Don't know what is it that I do wrong,
cause it doens't work... I have asked for help before, even here, but the
problem still is not solved :( .
Do not mount a DOS floppy. Use mtools instead.
/usr/ports/emulators/mtools
Hello,
You can mount MS-DOS floppies by doing:
mkdir /floppya
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /floppya
df -k -- Should show your mounted floppy.
If you have a problem you can check and see if:
options MSDOSFS
in your kernel configuration file.
R.
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Lee Harr wrote:
I am
Is there a formatted floppy in the drive?
At 08:37 PM 8/13/2003 -0700, you wrote:
OK, my fist trime trying to mount a floppy under FreebSD (4.8) isn't going so
well.
I've looked over the net and I think I have a problem.
I tried the command:
mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
and variants with the
OK, my fist trime trying to mount a floppy under FreebSD (4.8) isn't going
so
well.
I've looked over the net and I think I have a problem.
I tried the command:
mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
and variants with the slices added. In all cases tried so far I get the
error:
mount_msdos:
On Monday, 28 July 2003 at 13:31:10 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We have received a file on a floppy disk from a client. When we put it into
the drive it says that disk has not been formatted. We already read from the
disk and transferred the file to another system earlier. Why, after we
Lee Harr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is this a hardware problem? I get the same thing with all disks I
have tried.
Yes, probably.
I'm guessing it's an MS-DOS type floppy, being mounted with mount -t msdos.
You might try the mtools, which parse the filesystem a little
differently, but it's
May 28 10:20:21 tern /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ST0
40abnrml ST1 1no_am ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1)
May 28 10:20:24 tern /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ST0
40abnrml ST1 1no_am ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1)
May 28 10:22:46 tern /kernel: fd0c: hard error writing fsbn 0 of 0-1 (ST0
I think I have spoke to you before, go here:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.0-RELEASE/floppies/
download kern.flp mfsroot.flp and fixit.flp (in case).
That should take care of what you want. Unless you don't have an
internet connection, in that case use a 5.0-release cd as
My Floppy and CD are in the same spot -
I think I have spoke to you before, go here:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.0-RELEASE/floppies/
download kern.flp mfsroot.flp and fixit.flp (in case).
That should take care of what you want. Unless you don't have an
internet
My CD ROM and Floppy drive are in the same spot. FTP , CABLE , HEADLESS
will not Work. 4 sets of cables, 20 disks later nothing has changed, cept
my grey hair.
So Floppy is the ONLY way possible to do any kind of install so far as I
can see. No CD No CABLE No Nothing but floppies
So I need to
On Thursday 27 February 2003 05:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My CD ROM and Floppy drive are in the same spot. FTP , CABLE , HEADLESS
will not Work. 4 sets of cables, 20 disks later nothing has changed, cept
my grey hair.
So Floppy is the ONLY way possible to do any kind of install so far
So Floppy is the ONLY way possible to do any kind of install so far as I
can see. No CD No CABLE No Nothing but floppies
So I need to know is the /BASE in 5.0 the same as /BIN in 4.7 so I can
start rolling out floppies.
Yes, you need kern.flp, mfsboot.flp, and all of directory base/ to get
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 00:52, Mike wrote:
In the 4.7 release there is a /bin in 5.0 there is a /base will the
instructions from
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-m
edia.html
Still work?
What version do you want to install?
If there was a way to install
CDROM failed. It's an IBM ThinkPad 765D. So now
I am down to this.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Asenchi
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 11:45 PM
To: Mike
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Floppy install
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 00:52
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 01:57, Mike wrote:
I am stuck having to install FreeBSD via floppies. I would like to
install 5.0. can I use the same way the handbook shows for 4.7?
Or is there a way I can do a mini install and get the rest from my CD
ROM. My CD wont boot, the headless install failed
ftp releng4.freebsd.org
ftp cd /pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/4.7-20030206-STABLE/floppies
250 CWD command successful.
ftp ls
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'.
total 7266
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 wheel 204 Feb 6 20:00 CHECKSUM.MD5
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 wheel 2949120 Feb 6 20:00
.
jerry
- Original Message -
From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Terry Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 7:58 AM
Subject: Re: floppy device busy
I was trying to create a bootable floppy from using a script I found
from
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 7:58 AM
Subject: Re: floppy device busy
I was trying to create a bootable floppy from using a script I found
from
http://www.svbug.com/developer/documentation/handbook/handbook139.html
and well it failed. Big newbie
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 03:55:21PM -0700, Wayne Lubin wrote:
As I discussed in an earlier email that the fd0
device is not showing up on dmesg. Can it be that I
burnt out the floppy drive and now at boot up the
floppy is not being detected?
It's possible that your floppy has indeed bitten
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 22:20:30 +0200 (CEST)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, an idea for this problem:?
[root@x]/root(101): mount /dev/fd0 /drives/fd
mount: /dev/fd0: Device not configured
thanks
Try this as rootmount_msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
--- Wayne Lubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Bryan Cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 22:20:30 +0200 (CEST)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, an idea for this problem:?
[root@x]/root(101): mount /dev/fd0 /drives/fd
mount: /dev/fd0: Device not configured
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:55:21 -0700 (PDT)
Wayne Lubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am having the exact problem as this guy, and I tried
your suggestion
mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
as root and I still get
/dev/fd0: Device not configured
Try fdisk /dev/fd0 or fdisk fd0 cant remember
At 10:51 PM 10.16.2002 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 16-Oct-2002 Bryan Cassidy wrote:
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 22:20:30 +0200 (CEST)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, an idea for this problem:?
[root@x]/root(101): mount /dev/fd0 /drives/fd
mount: /dev/fd0: Device not configured
thanks
At 06:10 PM 10.16.2002 -0500, Bryan Cassidy wrote:
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:55:21 -0700 (PDT)
Wayne Lubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am having the exact problem as this guy, and I tried
your suggestion
mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
as root and I still get
/dev/fd0: Device not configured
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-08 10:46:16 -0700:
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 21:09:58 +0200 (CEST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# mount /dev/fd0c /drives/fd
grep: /etc/vfstab: No such file or directory
grep: /etc/vfstab: No such file or directory
mount: /dev/fd0c:
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-07 21:09:58 +0200:
# mount /dev/fd0c /drives/fd
grep: /etc/vfstab: No such file or directory
grep: /etc/vfstab: No such file or directory
mount: /dev/fd0c: Device not configured
*** mount: /dev/fd0c: Device not configured ***
hi, if the order mount
# mount /dev/fd0c /drives/fd
grep: /etc/vfstab: No such file or directory
grep: /etc/vfstab: No such file or directory
mount: /dev/fd0c: Device not configured
*** mount: /dev/fd0c: Device not configured ***
hi, if the order mount means that the device is not
configured,it has to
On 08-Oct-2002 Jerry McAllister wrote:
# mount /dev/fd0c /drives/fd
grep: /etc/vfstab: No such file or directory
grep: /etc/vfstab: No such file or directory
mount: /dev/fd0c: Device not configured
*** mount: /dev/fd0c: Device not configured ***
hi, if the order mount means that
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 21:09:58 +0200 (CEST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# mount /dev/fd0c /drives/fd
grep: /etc/vfstab: No such file or directory
grep: /etc/vfstab: No such file or directory
mount: /dev/fd0c: Device not configured
*** mount: /dev/fd0c:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can i make to reinstal only that command (mount), whitout reinstaling all
the SO?
cd /usr/src/sbin/mount
make all install
Requires that you have the sources installed, of course.
And if your system security was really compromised, it
won't help you at all.
Gary W. Swearingen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[huge quote]
grep: /etc/vfstab: No such file or directory
...
Anyway, I just wanted to guess that vfstab means Virtual FileSystem
TABle, which I think is an (optional?) feature of FreeBSD 5.0 (AKA
No. /etc/vfstab is the filesystem table
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-04 16:49:05 +0200:
Hello, I'm new on the list and I'm trying to configurate and mount my
floppydisk, can anyone tell me how I could find any document that
would help me.
see /etc/disktab. i use this script to create floppies:
roman@freepuppy ~ 1021:0
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 19:46:40 +0200
From: Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: floppy disk
don't top-post.
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-04 17:25:44 +0200:
On 04-Oct-2002 Roman
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# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-04 18:50:21 +0200:
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-04 17:57:05 +0200:
On 04-Oct-2002 Roman Neuhauser wrote:
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-04 17:25:44 +0200:
On 04-Oct-2002 Roman Neuhauser wrote:
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-04 16:49:05 +0200:
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-04 19:03:48 +0200:
On 04-Oct-2002 John Bleichert wrote:
Also, are you sure you've compiled support for floppy disks into
your kernel? Also the support for the filesystem on them?
Hi, what do you mean when you say filesystem?
filesystem is a schema, an
jeez, now, come on, if someone can't understand something then don't make
'em feel like an idiot. it took me at least a year to get used to dealing
with 'filesystems' et al.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[huge quote]
grep: /etc/vfstab: No such file or directory
...
Hi, what do you mean when you say filesystem?
(You could have asked that question without quoting most of the thread.)
Anyway, I just wanted to guess that vfstab means Virtual FileSystem
TABle, which I
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