About floppy disk

Hello, I have a question about the floppy disk. How can I mount the floppy disk? Which device under the /dev directory represents the floppy disk, /dev/fd0 or /dev/diskette or /dev/diskette0? How can I mount the floppy disk manually? I think the floppy disk is a block device. Am I right?
When I try to mount the floppy disk using the following command, it always returns error.
# mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
mount: /dev/fd0 is already mounted, /floppy is busy,
or the allowable number of mount points has been exceeded
What is the problem? Thanks

Hi,
Have you stopped vold? If not run /etc/rc2.d/S92volmgt stop.
Hope that helps.
Ralph

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http://www.lemkesoft.com/content/207/download-old-versions.html
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www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html
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<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>rogerisland wrote on Fri, 03 June 2005 11:25</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
>That is, you can boot Solaris from the install CD (or DVD) together >with
>HP's driver from the ITU floppy in the USB floppy drive, and copy >Solaris to
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>because no PS/2 floppy device /dev/diskette is present?
Basically, yes (and I want to install Solaris 10 on x86)
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OK, Solaris 10 should have less issues with USB floppy support than
older Solaris 9 or Solaris 8 releases.
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I have to use the console installation (without the GUI) because the interactive one hangs at the end of the disk.
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/dev/console input.
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Another problem is that the installer tries to copy the driver to the array before disc 1 is finished (after it installed all the files though) where no reboot is attempted.
I'd like to try your suggestion though.
Is it possible to fire up a shell if I use option 3 on the installer (console install in GUI) or interactive shell (option 1) (if it wouldnt hang..but maybe it hangs BECAUSE it tries to access the disk) ?
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If the GUI installer is running, right click on the desktop and open a
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<div class="pre"><pre> 2678 /usr/sbin/install.d/pfinstall -f /swap2 -s /dev/dsk/n 9335 sh -c /sbin/sh /tmp/diskette_rc.d/icdinst9.sh 9336 /sbin/sh /tmp/diskette_rc.d/icdinst9.sh 9345 sh /tmp/diskette_rc.d/inst9.sh 9348 sh /tmp/diskette_rc.d/inst9.sh</pre></div>
The last one ("inst9.sh", PID 9348 in my case), is blocked in a read()
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prova.vi ‏55 KB

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