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From: ficnar@ecf.toronto.edu (FICNAR  FRANK G)
Subject: FreeBSD:  How to mount a floppy?
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Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 16:11:17 GMT
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Hello,

	I was just wondering how one formats and mounts a floppy in FreeBSD?
I can successfully mount the boot floppy using mount /dev/fd0 /fd.35.  When
I go into the /fd3.5 directory I see the contents of the floppy.
However, if I format a floppy using fdformat and then try to mount that
floppy it gives me ...

Edgar > mount /dev/fd0 /fd3.5
/dev/fd0 on /fd3.5: Incorrect super block.
Edgar > 

	What am I doing wrong?  I have to assume I am not formatting the 
floppy correctly because the mount command seems to work OK.

	Many thanks.

Frank Ficnar
ficnar@ecf.toronto.edu