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From: tmonroe@soda.berkeley.edu (Anthony Monroe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: FreeBSD -- mount me a floppy...
Date: 19 Jun 1994 04:50:06 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Undergrad Assoc, UCBerkeley
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Hello again...

Short and to the point: I recently recompiled my kernel and I want to test
it out by booting off of a floppy.  Problem is that I can't figure out a
simple way to copy to floppy.  I'm assuming that one must mount /dev/fd0 (or
whatever the floppy drive "a:" is) as a filesystem first.  But I may easily
be wrong.  After RTFMing and reading the FAQ and checking a book, I haven't
found much that works.  It's all rather confusing.

I didn't bother to ask the Computer Science Undergraduate Association here
'cause they tend to give hostile answers, if any at all...so a friendly
answer (like those I have received here in the past) would be most
appreciated.  Thank you.

						Tony