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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mounting DOS volumes/floppies
Date: 1 Sep 1995 12:42:13 +0200
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MICHAEL  <michael@gnj.or.jp> wrote:
>Is there a way of mounting DOS hard disk partitions and floppies,
>like with Linux? 

mount -t msdos [-r] /dev/fd0 /mnt

Or you can use the `mtools' package for an easy-to-use command
interface that doesn't even require mounting (since it's operating on
the raw disk images).
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)