Re: floppy mount support

2004-01-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
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. > > Incid

Re: floppy mount support

2003-12-24 Thread Srinivasa Kanduru
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 [E

Re: floppy mount support

2003-12-23 Thread samy lancher
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 i