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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD:  How to mount a floppy?
Date: 7 Jan 1995 12:28:38 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <D1zrMw.Dy@ecf.toronto.edu>,
FICNAR  FRANK G <ficnar@ecf.toronto.edu> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>However, if I format a floppy using fdformat and then try to mount that
>floppy it gives me ...

When you formatted it, you wiped all information from the floppy.  Including
filesystem information!  What you need to do is this:

fdformat /dev/fd0
<format>
disklabel -w -B fd0 floppy3	[or floppy5 if 1.2MB]
newfs /dev/fd0
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt

					Jordan