On Sunday 20 June 2010 05:19:30 Francisco Reyes wrote: > Any has had any success with getting floppies to work on VMware desktop 7 > on a FreeBSD guest? > > Did the following to prepare the floppy > > #Create empty floppy image > dd if=/dev/zero bs=1k count=1440 of=/data/tmp/boot.flp > > #create md0 and point it to floppy > mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /data/tmp/boot.flp -u 0
In case you don't know, you can achieve the same thing using some simpler commands: truncate -s 1440k /data/tmp/boot.flp mdconfig -a -f /data/tmp/boot.flp -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
