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| r.madhu 2002-03-26, 2:03 am |
| hi guys,
i'm running Solaris 8 Intel Platform Edition.
I'm facing a problem of going to the floppy directory.
BIOS is detecting my floppy drive and it can boot from floppy also.
i think my solaris configuration is having some problem.
when i tried to open the floppy directory, it
is telling me that no such device,
then it asked me to create a directory called
.removable under tmp directory.
i did it.
but still it is giving the problem.
Anybody faced the same and solved it pls
help me.
Thanks
r madhu | |
| Grasshopper 2002-03-26, 3:57 am |
| Maybe you can supply some more info.
- Is the volume management daemon running (vold)? ('pgrep vold' should report a PID)
- Are you trying to access via CDE or command line?
- If you're trying via command line, what path are you using?
- What do you see if you do a long listing on /floppy ?
If you're unable to reboot the machine, try restarting the vold daemon with the command "pkill -HUP vold"
Have you messed with the /etc/vold.conf file?
You may also want to look in /var/adm/vold.log and /var/adm/messages for further clues.
Grasshopper | |
| maciagt 2002-04-11, 11:03 pm |
| First you need to make sure it is in your open boot configuration.
Next try doing a volcheck -v
This will indicate that the disk is ready to have a ufs placed on it by respoonding with the message "Media was found." Once successful, you can condinue by using the newfs command.
newfs -v /vol/dev/aliases/floppy0
ONce properly formatted you can continue with the volrmmount command
volrmmount -i floppy0
to unmount
volrmount -e floppy0
Good luck!
Ted |
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