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Date:      Mon, 29 Mar 1999 01:09:13 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Khetan Gajjar <khetan@link.freebsd.os.org.za>
To:        Jilani Khaldi <delphi@agata.clio.it>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mounting a floppy disk...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9903290108010.6807-100000@pleb.cs.uct.ac.za>
In-Reply-To: <36FEB6BF.34F5F0CD@agata.clio.it>

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On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Jilani Khaldi wrote:

>  mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
>I receive the message:
>  incorrect type block

Is it a DOS disk ? If so, try
mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt

>I am missing something?

What is the size of the disk ? If it's a 720k (or something odd),
use the appropriate device instead of /dev/fd0 (eg. /dev/fd0.720,
/dev/fd0.1200, etc)

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