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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: mounting floppy Date: 12 Nov 1995 16:05:04 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4852f0$k6r@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <47tdll$t8o@dali.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Roland Jesse <jesse@csmd.cs.UNI-Magdeburg.DE> wrote: >In which way may I mount my floppy drive (MSDOS) ? > >mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy > >does not do the job. It's supposed to. > The floppy led switches on and the system stands >completly. No possibility to switch to another terminal (with alt-F?), no >possibility to break the mounting (nothing happens, when pressing Ctrl-C). Can you read the floppy disk, e.g. ``cp /dev/rfd0 /tmp/diskimage''? Do you see any kernel messages hinting to floppy errors? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)