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From: mmead@hq.ctr.vt.edu (matthew c. mead)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How do I mount fd0 under FreeBSD
Date: 07 Jun 1995 15:24:26 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
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In-reply-to: Etienne Finet's message of 7 Jun 1995 05:10:08 GMT
In article <3r3cbg$bn@news1.best.com> Etienne Finet <efinet@insist.com> writes:
> I am a beginnner.
> I was unable to mount my floppy drive to transfer
> files to my hard disk.
> Can anybody give me a clue?
It depends what type of filesystem is on the floppy, but if it's a
standard FreeBSD filesystem, you can use "mount /dev/fd0c /mnt" and you can
access it at /mnt. If it's dos, you'd do something like this:
"mount -t msdos /dev/fd0c /mnt". Hope this helps...
-matt
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