On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 09:02:31PM +0000, Richard Ibbotson wrote:

> I've been sat here trying to work out how to mount my floppy drive on 
> my i386 Net BSD machine for some time.  I've followed the 
> instructions in the Net BSD manual for the CD-Rom drive.  All I have 
> to do now is 'mount /cdrom' and it mounts.  However, I can't work out 
> how to do this with my floppy drive.

http://www.mclink.it/personal/MG2508/nbsdeng/chap-2boot.html#AEN1065

mkdir /mnt/floppy
mount -t <filesystem> /dev/fd0a /mnt/floppy

> In /etc/fstab I've put the line ...
> 
> /dev/cd0a  /cdrom  cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
> 
> what is the syntax for a floppy drive ?  That's for a floppy with an 
> ext2 or msdos file system on it.

/dev/fd0a /mnt/floopy msdos rw,auto 0 0

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