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From: etxofsn@sim15.aom.ericsson.se (Olof Samuelsson FK/M Orust 6546)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mounting floppy
Date: 10 Nov 1995 14:39:40 GMT
Organization: Ericsson
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Message-ID: <ETXOFSN.95Nov10153940@sim15.aom.ericsson.se>
References: <47tdll$t8o@dali.cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
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In-reply-to: jesse@csmd.cs.UNI-Magdeburg.DE's message of 9 Nov 1995 17:27:17 GMT
X-Attribution: Olof

In article <47tdll$t8o@dali.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> jesse@csmd.cs.UNI-Magdeburg.DE (Roland Jesse) writes:
> In which way may I mount my floppy drive (MSDOS) ?
> 
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
[hangs the computer]


Works fine for me on 2.0.5-RELEASE.  Does the mount point
(i.e. /floppy) exist?

Is the floppy a standard 1.44M?  Btw, for the gurus: What happens if
the lkm is missing btw?  OR is msdosfs statically linked in the kernel
(Can't check, far away from my FreeBSD system).


/Olof
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