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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!gol2!usenet From: Doug Lerner <doug@gol.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: fdformat & mount simple question Date: 10 Jan 1996 10:36:07 GMT Organization: Global OnLine Japan (+81-3-5330-9385) Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4d04qn$37t@gol2.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.243.53.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; 68K) X-URL: news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc I want to backup /etc using floppies and dump. First I formatted a 3.5" disk using the command fdformat -f 1440 and it seemed to format fie. But afterwards I couldn't figure out the correct way of mounting the floppy, so I couldn't run dump. I tried mount /dev/fd0 /floppy but got an "incorrect superblock error". Should I format and/or mount a floppy differently? Doug Lerner, Tokyo