Floppies in FreeBSD

[dowmun]

Because of a question asked me by one of my kids (he is taking a course in Solaris), I got to looking at floppies in FreeBsd. I noticed that there is no entry in /etc/fstab and the / partition does not contain a /floppy point. I can mount a floppy on /mnt so I guess there is no real problem. However, I just got a copy of The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey, and it reads as if floppies are mounted on /A. This is an old book, and I guess things have changed, or did I just mess up installing FreeBSD? Reinstalling would not be a problem.
Thanks, John

[elmore]

Things have changed quite a bit. You could of course make a /a dir or a /floppy dir and mount them there. I typically make /mnt/floppy and /mnt/cdrom and mount the appropriate media in those directories. That's just personal preference though.

[dowmun]

Thanks. I guess what confused me was the /cdrom mount point, but none for floppy. This may also explain why the book was so cheap. Although, I'm not throwing it away just yet.

[socomm]

Floppies under BSD. You could create a dir such as /floppy or /a then mount it 'mount /dev/fd0 /a' thats it no need to panic and reinstall :lol:. Also you could add a line to fstab so that you can mount the floppy whenever you want without having to do the chore of the previous example. Add a line like '/dev/fd0 /a ufs rw,noauto 0 0'. By the by that book is the best BSD book i've read so far.

[dowmun]

Thank you. I was cheerfully trying to get exim to work in FreeBSD when I was asked about the floppy thing. Seeing a chance to impress my kid, I jumped on it and ended up looking stupid. I wont pretend that I've gotten very far into the book, but I'm still glad I got it. Thanks again

[elmore]

Hey dowmun, we're here to help man, glad we could do it. You mention you're looking at exim, ever look at postfix? I got a how-to I wrote up a while back check it out in the how-to forum if you'd like.