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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: Accessing DOS floppies from NetBSD
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References: <CHA766.9JD@mv.mv.com> <1993Nov30.160540.2397@odin.diku.dk> <almCHC9Kn.2xL@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 07:19:53 GMT
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In article <almCHC9Kn.2xL@netcom.com> alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore) writes:
>In article <1993Nov30.160540.2397@odin.diku.dk> slawaetz@diku.dk (Sten Law{tz) writes:
>>Try this:
>>
>>orange# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt
>>
>>This mounts the floppy in drive a: onto /mnt, which can then be read.
>
>If you doing a lot of disk swapping, mtools might be more convenient.
Care to elaborate on this?
For starters just invoking mtools will increase your disk swapping.
Just curious :-)
>An mtools [for Net/FreeBSD] package should be available on
>FreeBSD.cdrom.com under FreeBSD/packages.
>
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