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From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore)
Subject: Re: Accessing DOS floppies from NetBSD
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References: <CHA766.9JD@mv.mv.com> <1993Nov30.160540.2397@odin.diku.dk>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 04:24:22 GMT
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In article <1993Nov30.160540.2397@odin.diku.dk> slawaetz@diku.dk (Sten Law{tz) writes:
>Try this:
>
>orange# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt
>
>This mounts the floppy in drive a: onto /mnt, which can then be read.
If you doing a lot of disk swapping, mtools might be more convenient.
An mtools [for Net/FreeBSD] package should be available on
FreeBSD.cdrom.com under FreeBSD/packages.