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From: geordan@OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Geordan Rosario)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: How to mount /dos?
Date: 20 May 1995 18:39:06 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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I installed FreeBSD 2.0R on my (third) SCSI disk.  My other two IDE drives have
FAT partitions, with no free space.  During the install I attempted to set a
/dos mount point, but FreeBSD said to '(W)rite changes' (as if I had created
partitions).  When I pressed W, the system rebooted.  So, I don't have any
msdos mountpoints.

How can I mount the other two DOS drives?  Or for that matter, how do I mount
DOS floppies?  mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt responds with 'bad parameter' or
similar, as does mount -t msdos /dev/wd0a /mnt.

-Geordan
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