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Old 05-27-2004
Data mount a floppy in UNIX BSDi 3
Anybody know how to mount a floppy in BSDi3 UNIX? Have tried all the standard commands with no luck. This includes:

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount /mnt/floppy
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Old 05-27-2004
Does the directory /mnt/floppy exist?

More information, error messages, etc, please!!

Cheers
ZB
http://www.zazzybob.com
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Old 05-27-2004
okay tried: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
Got the following error: "msdos:mount:Operation not supported by device"

When I do a mount /dev/fd0 /mnt floopy: The error is "/Dev/fd0 on /mnt/floppy: Incorrect Super Block" The same when specifying fd0a. Alst the /mnt/floppy directory does exist.

Any ohter ideas? Thanks
# 4  
Old 06-01-2004
No don't think the UNIX filesystem is DOS FAT. The floppy has been formatted. Trying to access an access list I created to tftp to my external router. Just edited via notepad on my win machine.
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