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
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Extracting, mounting a floppy.

2003-11-18 Thread Valerian Galeru
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Re: Extracting, mounting a floppy.

2003-11-18 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Valerian Galeru wrote: With what can i extract files from a bz2 archieve? # bunzip2 Also have a look at # man bunzip How can i mount a floppy? (Assuming it is dos formatted) # mount_msdosfs /dev/fd0 /mnt also have a look at # man mount Regards, Uli.

mounting a floppy

2003-07-01 Thread Robert Gallimore
Hello I am having a slight problem with FreeBSD 4.8. I cannot seem to mount a floppy drive. I tried mount /dev/fd0 but it comes back saying something like an unrecognized file system or device. How do I mount my floppy drive in FreeBSD 4.8? Thanks! Rob

Fwd: Re: mounting a floppy

2003-07-01 Thread quadrant
You need to mount the file system 'somewhere.' mount /dev/fd0 /mnt or similar. mount [device] [location] On Tuesday 01 July 2003 02:25 pm, Robert Gallimore wrote: Hello I am having a slight problem with FreeBSD 4.8. I cannot seem to mount a floppy drive. I tried mount /dev/fd0 but it

Re: mounting a floppy

2003-07-01 Thread Bob Hall
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 01:25:17PM -0500, Robert Gallimore wrote: Hello I am having a slight problem with FreeBSD 4.8. I cannot seem to mount a floppy drive. I tried mount /dev/fd0 but it comes back saying something like an unrecognized file system or device. How do I mount my floppy drive

Re: mounting a floppy

2003-07-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 01:25:17PM -0500, Robert Gallimore wrote: I am having a slight problem with FreeBSD 4.8. I cannot seem to mount a floppy drive. I tried mount /dev/fd0 but it comes back saying something like an unrecognized file system or device. How do I mount my floppy drive in