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From: "Faried Nawaz" <fn@uidaho.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Newbie Question
Date: 02 Sep 1996 12:59:56 -0700
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In article <Pine.GSO.3.94.960902010203.23452A-100000@Stratus.CAM.ORG> General American Compagnie de Reassurance-Vie du Canada <ga_re@CAM.ORG> writes:
   
   How do I go about mounting a DOS diskette under FreeBSD?

mount -t msdos /dev/fdX.Y /mnt

where 
	X = 0 for a:, 1 for b:
	Y = 360, 720, 1440, etc (for the size of the floppy).

read the man page for mount_msdos.