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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: useing floppies under 2.0.5-950622-SNAP
Date: 25 Jul 1995 02:25:02 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3v0f77$dok@bronze.coil.com>, Eric Chet <echet@coil.com> wrote:
>Lets try a unix disk:
>fdformat /dev/fd0c
>Everything works fine, now when I try and mount the disk.
>mount /dev/fd0c /mnt
>/dev/fd0c on /mnt: Incorrect super block.

Bzzzt!

This isn't a UNIX disk.  You just formatted it, yes, but where's the
disklabel?  The file system?  This needs to be something more like:

fdformat /dev/fd0
disklabel -r -w /dev/fd0 floppy3
newfs /dev/fd0
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt

						Jordan