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From: jonc@pinnacle.co.nz (Jonathan Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to mount /dos?
Date: 23 May 1995 10:03:16 +1200
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In <3pld0a$e7j@agate.berkeley.edu> geordan@OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Geordan Rosario) writes:

>How can I mount the other two DOS drives?  Or for that matter, how do I mount
>DOS floppies?  mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt responds with 'bad parameter' or
>similar, as does mount -t msdos /dev/wd0a /mnt.

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0.144 /mnt works.
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