On Wednesday 08 October 2003 08:08, Peter Seebach wrote:
> Hmm.  You may need to use /dev/fd0b, depending on your system's BIOS.

Not in this case.

Also, I've looked to the documentation 
(http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/misc/#using-floppies) and followed the 
instructions, creating a disklabel. But I'm still getting the same errors.

> fd0a is a "block device".  rfd0a is a "character device".  In general, you
> most often want to use the block device.

So, to use "dd" or "fdformat", I can use a character device with no problem, 
but to access data using "mount", a block device is required, right?