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From: rcjvdb@urc.tue.nl (Jan van den Bosch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: How to mount a floppy?
Date: 6 Jan 95 20:11:29 GMT
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ficnar@ecf.toronto.edu (FICNAR  FRANK G) writes:


>	I was just wondering how one formats and mounts a floppy in FreeBSD?
>I can successfully mount the boot floppy using mount /dev/fd0 /fd.35.  When
>I go into the /fd3.5 directory I see the contents of the floppy.
>However, if I format a floppy using fdformat and then try to mount that
>floppy it gives me ...

>Edgar > mount /dev/fd0 /fd3.5
>/dev/fd0 on /fd3.5: Incorrect super block.
>Edgar > 

>Frank Ficnar
>ficnar@ecf.toronto.edu

try: mount /dev/fd0a ... (for 3 1/2", 1.4MB) 
or   mount /dev/fd0e ... (for 3 1/2", 720kB)

Jan v.d. Bosch