floppy disk - device not configured error

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Technical Director [mailto:trodat at ultratrends.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:45 PM
> > To: Darryl Hoar
> > Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: floppy disk - device not configured error
> > 
> > Greetings back,
> > 
> > You could try the following:
> > 
> > dd if=./kern.flp of=/dev/fd0a
> > 
> > That might fix your problem.
> > 
> > R.
> > 
> > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Darryl Hoar wrote:
> > 
> > > Greetings,
> > > I am running FreeBSD 4.7-stable.  I am
> > > trying to make new boot floppies so I
> > > can install Freebsd on another machine.
> > > When I try to:
> > > dd if=./kern.flp of=/dev/fd0
> > > 
> > > I get a "Device not configured" Error.
> > > A good, new floppy is in the drive.  I have
> > > tried several new floppies.  Same result.
> > > 
> > > Checked dmesg and the floppy controller
> > > is recognized, etc.
> > > 
> > > what am I not doing right ?

Is the floppy formatted?   Used fdformat for that or do it
on a MS machine.

Also, write to /dev/fd0c   or /dev/rfd0c.

Here is just what I do and have done many times.

   First format two floppies for 1.4 meg using fdformat
   ->    'fdformat -f 1440'    is enough.  It will prompt for the rest
   then
   ->    'dd if=boot-image of=/dev/rfd0c'   for boot floppy
     (change floppy :)
   and
   ->    'dd if=mfs-image of=/dev/rfd0c'    for mfs floppy

The only other thing I can think of is maybe you don't have the device
made correctly.

Check it and use MAKEDEV to make them 
  (what happens after you get to 5.x I don't know yet, haven't been there)

do    cd /dev
      ls -l *fd0*
if you don't find an 'rfd0c'  then make one

      ./MAKEDEV fd0         should do it

You might need to delete some stuff first as in
      
      rm *fdo*

But, really, these should all be there because the system normally
makes these by default.   If they aren't there, something pooped
along the line somewhere.

Good luck,

////jerry

> > > 
> > > thanks,
> > > -Darryl
> 
> thanks.  I tried your suggestion, but received the same message.
> Any other ideas ?
> 
> thanks
> Darryl