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From: echet@coil.com (Eric Chet)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: I have a few questions
Date: 25 Jul 1995 07:49:45 -0400
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In article <3v0rbh$1r6@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Michael Heldebrant <hmike@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>How do I format and mount a floppy disk? I have no idea how to do this
Hello
If you have a 1.4M 3.5" floppy in drive 0. This is the
process. I assume this is under FreeBSD 2.0.5.
#fdformat /dev/fd0.1440
#disklabel -w -r /dev/fd0.14440 floppy
#newfs /dev/fd0.1440
#mount /dev/fd0.1440 /mnt
#cd /mnt /* to use the disk */
If you had a 720k disk you would use fd0.720, check /dev/fd* for the
supported sizes. Sence we are on the subject, if you want to use
a msdos disk.
#mount -t msdos /dev/fd0.1440 /mnt
When your done using the disk:
#umount /mnt
I hope this helps.
--Eric
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Eric Chet -- echet@coil.com