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From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mount DOS Floppies
Date: 21 May 1996 13:07:48 GMT
Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants
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In article <4nqafh$4v0@news1.infinet.com>,
James Crawford <jcrawfor@ccolor.com> wrote:
> I'm new to using FreeBSD and was wanting to know the correct way to
> mount a DOS 1.44 meg format floppy?

# mount -t msdos /dev/rfd0a /dos

for example. If  the MSDOS file system  is not statically  linked into your
kernel, the lkm will be loaded from /lkm and the filesystem mounted. 

Don't forget to umount it after use :-)
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