on Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 09:02:31PM +0000, Richard Ibbotson wrote: > what is the syntax for a floppy drive ? That's for a floppy with an > ext2 or msdos file system on it. See http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/misc/#using-floppies No /etc/fstab entry is needed. mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt or mount -t ext2fs /dev/fd0a /mnt