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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!overload.lbl.gov!ames!koriel!male.EBay.Sun.COM!engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM!engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM!orpheus!jackv From: jackv@orpheus.Eng.Sun.COM (Jack F. Vogel) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: freebsd floppy mount probs Date: 11 Sep 1994 07:21:48 GMT Organization: Sun Lines: 23 Message-ID: <34ub6c$aff@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> References: <34t3he$45q@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: orpheus.eng.sun.com Keywords: floppy freebsd problem In article <34t3he$45q@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> smasilam@ecn.uoknor.edu (Senthilamudhan Masilamani) writes: |Hi ANYone, | I got the basci kernel installed (freebsd 1.5.1.1). When I use |load_fd, it tries to mount the floppy drive a on /tmp/floppy but returns |an invalud argument error. The dev fd0 is present and dectected. |I dont knwo whats wrong?!! I cant insatll the bin_tgz files unitl I mount the |floppy a. HOW did you make the floppies? I had EXACTLY the same problem, it was because I used a PCFS mount onto my Sparcstation. What was also WEIRD was that DOS was perfectly happy with the disks, still after I reformated the damn things and copied the files back they were OK. Fortunately I only made a few of the 'bindist' floppies in this manner, the others worked OK. The moral of the story is, REFORMAT (hopefully you still have a DOS platform to do it on :-). IS THIS BIZARRE or what :-). Cheers, -- Jack F. Vogel Sun Microsystems Inc. jackv@Sun.COM