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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD: How to mount a floppy? Date: 7 Jan 1995 12:28:38 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3em1dm$b3u@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <D1zrMw.Dy@ecf.toronto.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <D1zrMw.Dy@ecf.toronto.edu>, FICNAR FRANK G <ficnar@ecf.toronto.edu> wrote: >Hello, > >However, if I format a floppy using fdformat and then try to mount that >floppy it gives me ... When you formatted it, you wiped all information from the floppy. Including filesystem information! What you need to do is this: fdformat /dev/fd0 <format> disklabel -w -B fd0 floppy3 [or floppy5 if 1.2MB] newfs /dev/fd0 mount /dev/fd0 /mnt Jordan