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

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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

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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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