Hello all! I just recently inherited a mid-90s gateway full tower system (Original Pentium, SIMM style RAM, etc.). I had always wanted to try an old version of UNIX, and having come across a copy of AT&T System V R4 decided that the time was ripe. There were 30 disks total, and after booting to the first disk and completing the 10 in the base package, it told me I could use pkgadd to install the additional packages, I assume from the other floppy disks.

To my question: how does one go about mounting a floppy disk in System V? I'm kind of a newbie having only used Linux for a couple of months on a newer computer, and I had never used floppy disks with that.

Running "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt" tells me that fd0 is not a device. I did some poking around and found something about floppy disk types on the internet, and looked in /dev/dsk. Running "cat /dev/dsk/f03ht" makes the drive light on the floppy drive light up, and runs coherent text accross the screen (too fast to read) but eventually turns to gibberish and it beeps at me. So the disk drive is recognized at least. But when I try to mount /dev/dsk/f03ht, it tells me that it is not an s5 filesystem. I am puzzled.

I know it would probably be easier to just install one of the newer BSDs etc., but I'm very interested in computing history. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.