Subject: Re: Mounting MSDOS floppies
To: None <jimtnelson@earthlink.net>
From: Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf@ping.net.au>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/24/1999 18:54:51
James T. Nelson wrote
> 
> I have been trying to mount msdos floppies as follows:
> 
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0d /floppy
> 
> mount /dev/fd0d /floppy
> 
> mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
> 
> etc.
> 
> All I get are error messages.
> 
> What is the trick?
> 
> I am running NetBSD-1.3.3 on a PCI bus i386 Pentium machine.
> Floppies are formated under Windows 95.  I also tried formatting a floppy with fdformat:
> 
> fdformat /dev/fd0
> 
> No luck in mounting.

You've obviously not tried the following ;)

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt

or in your case if

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /floppy

Just make sure that /floppy is a valid mount point!!!!!

Hope this helps

cheerio Berndt
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Name	: Berndt Josef Wulf
E-Mail	: wulf@ping.net.au
Sysinfo	: DEC AXPpci33+, NetBSD-1.3.3