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Date:      Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:57:44 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Patrick Troy <ptroy@mail.hq.nasa.gov>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Reading the contents of a floppy drive in unix
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971117115653.10644O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19971117112018.007944f0@mail.hq.nasa.gov>

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On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Patrick Troy wrote:

> Using BSD how do I do it?

This depends on what format the disk is.

For DOS formatted disks:

# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt

For FreeBSD formatted disks:

# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt

Don't forget to unmount the disks using

# umount /mnt

before ejecting them.

Of course do this all as root.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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