# Problem with mounting **URL:** \ **Category:** UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers\ **Created:** [September 19, 2002, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/problem-with-mounting/144164 "2002-09-19T17:44:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Erythro73](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/erythro73/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@Erythro73](https://community.unix.com/u/Erythro73)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2002, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/problem-with-mounting/144164/1 "2002-09-19T17:44:10Z")
Hi people, I've made some search about it but i didn't find anything. I tried to mount my floppy, mount -t /dev/fd0 /mnt but it didn't work... it says : "Device not configured". Can you help me please??? And mounting my dos partiton... mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt (Cuz you my windows partition is on hdc1) says... Couldn't find mount\_exec in /sbin. and mount -a /dev/fd0 /mnt give me a (Input Output error) That's all... if you could help me, i would be very thankfull. Thanks you in advance. Erythro73 P.S. Please forgive me for my bad english... I'm from Quebec ;). R.P.S. I have FreeBSD 4.6 ---
**Author:** ![janr](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/janr/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@janr](https://community.unix.com/u/janr)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 3:16am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/problem-with-mounting/144164/2 "2002-09-20T03:16:08Z")
mount -t /dev/fd0 /mnt Try mount -t /mnt where you had to configure /tmp in the /etc/filesystems file in the way the command mounts the floppy mount -a /dev/fd0 /mnt give me a (Input Output error) Sound to me the floppy is not formatted ---
**Author:** ![auswipe](https://community.unix.com/user_avatar/community.unix.com/auswipe/32/44_2.png) [@auswipe](https://community.unix.com/u/auswipe)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 10:24am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/problem-with-mounting/144164/3 "2002-09-20T10:24:42Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Erythro73 > mount -t /dev/fd0 /mnt > > but it didn't work... it says : "Device not configured". Can you help me please??? > [@](#): > > R.P.S. I have FreeBSD 4.6 Since you are using FreeBSD and not Linux, have you tried mounting the entire slice for the floppy with something like this? ```plaintext mount -t msdos /dev/fd0c /mnt ``` > [@](#): > > And mounting my dos partiton... > > mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt > R.P.S. I have FreeBSD 4.6 FreeBSD does not use the same device names as Linux. /dev/hdc1 is a Linux device name. On my FreeBSD 4.5 system, my drives are: ```plaintext ad0: 16228MB [32972/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66 acd0: DVD-ROM at ata0-slave using PIO4 cd0: Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device ``` Here is a link of FreeBSD disk device names: [http://docs.freebsd.org/handbook/en/4.0R/disks-naming.html](http://docs.freebsd.org/handbook/en/4.0R/disks-naming.html) The big challenge is to find which slice your Windows partition is located so that you can mount it. fdisk should give you the information that you need, just be careful to not blow away any slice or partitions accidently. :eek: > [@](#): > > P.S. Please forgive me for my bad english... I'm from Quebec . 😉 We won't hold it against you! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Erythro73](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/erythro73/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@Erythro73](https://community.unix.com/u/Erythro73)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 5:22pm UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/problem-with-mounting/144164/4 "2002-09-20T17:22:36Z")
Thank you all, with your help, i have made it!!! I mean... i mount my floppy, he read it with mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt I was very glad... but i can still not access my windows partition.... And what is the device for Ethernet card???? eth0 ????? Thank you, Erythro73 ---
**Author:** ![auswipe](https://community.unix.com/user_avatar/community.unix.com/auswipe/32/44_2.png) [@auswipe](https://community.unix.com/u/auswipe)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2002, 1:11am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/problem-with-mounting/144164/5 "2002-09-21T01:11:11Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Erythro73 > And what is the device for Ethernet card???? eth0 ????? The ethernet card under FreeBSD varies as well. While in Linux it is eth0, eth1, etc under FreeBSD the name depends on the chipset. The easiest way to identify your ethernet card is to take a look at the dmesg output. For example, on my FreeBSD 4.5 machine I see this: ```plaintext rl0: port 0xec00-0xecff mem 0xe8001000-0xe80010ff irq 1 1 at device 12.0 on pci0 rl0: Ethernet address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 ``` You might be able to use ifconfig -a as well: ```plaintext rl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 10.0.0.103 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 10.255.255.255 inet6 0000::000:0000f:0000:00f3%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active ``` ---
**Author:** ![Erythro73](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/erythro73/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@Erythro73](https://community.unix.com/u/Erythro73)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/problem-with-mounting/144164/6 "2002-09-21T15:40:15Z")
yes of course... it works... i did ifconfig and my ethernet card is.... vr0 . Now i got two problems... i can't mount my windows partition... and i can't configure my pppoe problem.... I'm with Adsl and since one week i did research on how configuring it... and it doesn't work... When I was on Linux Slackware, I used rp-pppoe from the Roaring Penguins Software, but it's not compatible with FreeBSD. See my other post (Just down him). I just can't do it... even if I used the [freebsd.org](http://freebsd.org) configuration handbook. Maybe you'll see my mystakes... Erythro73. ---
**Author:** ![Erythro73](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/erythro73/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@Erythro73](https://community.unix.com/u/Erythro73)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2002, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/problem-with-mounting/144164/7 "2002-09-21T16:06:53Z")
I did it!!!!!!!! My mistakes was that........ erh. i didnt configure the right ppp.conf....... Thanks you all!!!!