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To: alberto@ipmcomms.co.uk (Alberto Pandolfo)
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In-Reply-To: <417C2EBF36C3D111B62D00805F89826305DB@IPMCWNT002> from Alberto Pandolfo at "Jun 25, 98 01:11:25 pm"
From: Dima Dorfman <dima@zwb.net>
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> I'm novice about UNIX and freebsd. 
> How can I know the name of my floppy device in my machine and how can I
> read the contents of a disk?
> I've heard about mounting the device; what is the command? How does it
> work? 
> Is this the right place for these questions?  where can I get some good
> references? Can you help me?
> Thanks in advance
> Alberto

Mounting your floppy:

# mkdir /floppy
# mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
# cp /usr/file  /floppy
# umount /floppy

Above moounts the floppy in /floppy, copies a file to it, then unmounts
it.  To mount a DOS floppy replace the mount commands with

# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy


Hope this helps :)

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