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From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff)
Subject: Re: how to mount a floppy?
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richard (rpritz@panix.com) wrote:
: Johannes Faerber (faerber@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:
: : Hi,

: : Here's a stupid question: how do I mount a floppy-disk 
: : under FreeBSD? I read the mean-pages, but.... :(

: mount /dev/fd0 /mountdirectory
: should mount your a: drive

	The above will work for mounting unix filesystems but I beleive
that the original poster wished to mount DOG floppies in which case it
is 
mount -t pcfs /dev/fd0 /mountdirectory

and I think mtools are available on FreeBSD.cdrom.com somewhere.  I'm
feeling a little to lazy at the moment to go check exactly.  I still use
mtools every once in a while myself as they can be somewhat more
convenient than mounting and umounting the dos floppies.

Steve

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