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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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