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