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Um, duh. (Sound of head slap which leaves ugly welt on forehead.) OK, that shows me that I am a bit more of a novice than I had once thought because I totally missed the "&& newfs..." and thought that fdformat was doing the whole thing all by itself (and that the rest of the stuff on that line is all optional arguments. Really, really, really stupid assumption!). (The sad thing is that I was trying to format a disk on a Winblows box about 30' away but it was failing miserably--old diskette--so I decided to try it with FreeBSD and a different disk. If I'd just taken the "good" floppy and thrown it in the Winblows box, well, then I wouldn't have learned a thing.) I'll rush home and try this after work. I can't wait! Thanks, Bill On Sep 22, 2005, at 10:33 AM, James W. McKeand wrote: Bill Eccles wrote: > Oh, yes, the floppy: the floppy drive whirs, the green light comes > on, and it all seems to happen at the appropriate times: during boot, > when fd0 is being discovered, and when I supposedly make these > changes. The disk was formatted on a freeBSD box with "fdformat /dev/ > fd0" no fancy options specified. (I figured it can't be worse than > "format a:" on a Winblows box.) And m0n0wall never gripes about read > errors or write errors as it does if I shove a non-formatted floppy > in there. So I _assume_ that something meaningful is on that disk. > It must be a MS-DOS formatted floppy... Follow the steps here: http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/installation_cdrom.php Take a standard 1.44 MB diskette and format it (with MS-DOS/FAT file system!) o FreeBSD: fdformat -f 1440 /dev/fd0 && newfs_msdos -L "m0n0wallcfg" -f 1440 /dev/fd0 Note: you can omit the fdformat step if the floppy disk is already (low-level) formatted o Windows: format A: _________________________________ James W. McKeand --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch |