Live cd won't save to floppy or usb
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Currently I have pfSense 1.2 RC1 installed on a hard drive and it runs great. However, the hard drive is old and loud, and I have an extra CDROM and floppy drive around. So I'd like to unplug the hard drive, boot from the CDROM and use a floppy to store the configuration. Alternatively I could buy a USB stick for $8.
I can get it to work fine, but when I boot from the CDROM and restore my configuration file, it reboots with default settings. I saw on another post that disabling ACPI could help this problem, but I don't see where to do this in the BIOS. The FreeBSD device polling does show that the floppy is detected:
fdc0: <enhanced floppy="" controller=""> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: [FAST] fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0</enhanced>I also noticed these strange errors:
unknown: <pnp0c02> can't assign resources (port) unknown: <pnp0c02> can't assign resources (memory) unknown: <system memory=""> can't assign resources (memory) unknown: <pnp0303> can't assign resources (port) speaker0: <pc speaker=""> at port 0x61 on isa0 unknown: <pnp0700> can't assign resources (port)</pnp0700></pc></pnp0303></system></pnp0c02></pnp0c02>The system is a dell XPS D233. Its chipset is an Intel 440lx. My network cards are rl0 and xl0. When PFSense boots it does detect the floppy drive. The floppy is formatted as fat16.
Any ideas?
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Format it as fat32. Then you should see a option 99 to transfer the configuration.
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I'll try that right away.
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C:\Documents and Settings\Jeff>format A: /FS:FAT32 Insert new disk for drive A: and press ENTER when ready... The type of the file system is FAT. The new file system is FAT32. Verifying 1.44M Floppy disk is too small to hold the FAT32 file system.So it seems that fat32 won't work on a floppy. However, I formatted a memory stick as fat32 and that is working well. Thanks for the tip!
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Fat32 definitely won't work on a floppy. Ubuntu's format utility:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ mkdosfs -c -f32 -v /dev/fd0 mkdosfs 2.11 (12 Mar 2005) Bad number of FATs : 32 Usage: mkdosfs [-A] [-c] [-C] [-v] [-I] [-l bad-block-file] [-b backup-boot-sector] [-m boot-msg-file] [-n volume-name] [-i volume-id] [-s sectors-per-cluster] [-S logical-sector-size] [-f number-of-FATs] [-h hidden-sectors] [-F fat-size] [-r root-dir-entries] [-R reserved-sectors] /dev/name [blocks]