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From: Joe Diehl <joed@ksu.ksu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mounting DOS volumes/floppies
Date: 13 Sep 1995 07:23:55 GMT
Organization: KSU Engineering Computing Center
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sdga@cso.com (Steve Gray) wrote:
>MICHAEL (michael@gnj.or.jp) wrote:
>: Is there a way of mounting DOS hard disk partitions and floppies,
>: like with Linux? 
>
>
>I use the command mount_msdos /etc/fd0 /floppy
> 
>where /floppy is a prebuilt directory.  umount /floppy will unmount
>it.  You must be root to do this stuff.

To expand on the question further, how do you "prebuild" a directory?

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Joe Diehl <joed@ksu.ksu.edu>
Engineering Computing Center
Kansas State University