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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.csuohio.edu!stever From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) Subject: Re: how to mount a floppy? Message-ID: <1994Aug11.013754.20202@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <32b90v$qdi@agate.berkeley.edu> <32bd3v$ioh@panix2.panix.com> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 01:37:54 GMT Lines: 28 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 -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- stever@babbage.cba.csuohio.edu "What's better than a free OS?" " A free OS with source." FreeBSD at freebsd.cdrom.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------