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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU!tmonroe From: tmonroe@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Anthony Monroe) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: mounting floppy Date: 9 Nov 1995 19:16:38 GMT Organization: Computer Science Undergrad Assoc., Univ. of Calif. Berkeley Lines: 23 Message-ID: <47tk2m$s77@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <47tdll$t8o@dali.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.csua.berkeley.edu In article <47tdll$t8o@dali.cs.uni-magdeburg.de>, Roland Jesse <jesse@csmd.cs.UNI-Magdeburg.DE> wrote: >In which way may I mount my floppy drive (MSDOS) ? > >mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy > >does not do the job. The floppy led switches on and the system stands >completly. No possibility to switch to another terminal (with alt-F?), no >possibility to break the mounting (nothing happens, when pressing Ctrl-C). I've had similar experiences. I believe that using this command: mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy worked well. (I haven't used a DOS floppy in a while, though...) I guess that mount_msdos handles stuff a bit differently. Probably evidenced by the fact that it's a binary file and not a simple shell script. Would a member of the core team (or whoever wrote the program) care to tell us what the difference between the two programs is? -- tmonroe@csua.berkeley.edu "Experimental Non-Rabbit" Tony Monroe http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~tmonroe/ Computer Weenie and Weirdo in General