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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!its.csiro.au!dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!metro!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!cs.utk.edu!martha.utcc.utk.edu!martha.utcc.utk.edu!frank From: frank@martha.utcc.utk.edu (frank segner) Subject: Re: accccccck! Message-ID: <1994Mar21.054140.11038@martha.utcc.utk.edu> Sender: usenet@martha.utcc.utk.edu (USENET News System) Organization: ifan (inst. for appl. nonsense) X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3 References: <40.960.1682.0NE184BE@channel1.com> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 05:41:40 GMT Lines: 25 andrew.brault@channel1.com (Andrew Brault) writes: : : I'm using BSD386 release 0.1 on my intel 386 .. how do I mount a floppy : disk ?? I can read ms-dos files from the disk with "mread" but "mwrite" : doesn't work. I try something like: : : mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt : : says, cannot find file mount_msdos, blah blah blah... : the regular mount /dev/fd0a /mnt says bad block header or something. In : case you havent guessed yet I'm new at this stuff but got a unix manual : today and am studying hard! :) : : thanks, Andrew Brault i'm not certain about 386bsd0.1 (bsd386 ?? <=> BSDI) ?) so, using FreeBSD1.0.2; something like: mount -t pcfs /dev/fd0a /mnt works for me... it needs to be configured in your kernel-set-up, though.. -- frank@martha.utk.edu | actually, my opinions are not really my opinions frank@ifan.knox.tn.us | nor the opinions of my boss (who happens to be me ;-)