From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 28 15:10:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pleb.cs.uct.ac.za (pleb.cs.uct.ac.za [137.158.132.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8053614CE8 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 15:09:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from khetan@link.freebsd.os.org.za) X-Disclaimer: Contents of this e-mail are the writer's opinion X-Disclaimer2: and may not be quoted, re-produced or forwarded X-Disclaimer3: (in part or whole) without the author's permission. Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by pleb.cs.uct.ac.za (8.9.1+3.1W/8.9.1a) with SMTP id BAA07083; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 01:09:14 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from khetan@link.freebsd.os.org.za) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 01:09:13 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar X-Sender: khetan@pleb.cs.uct.ac.za Reply-To: Khetan Gajjar To: Jilani Khaldi Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting a floppy disk... In-Reply-To: <36FEB6BF.34F5F0CD@agata.clio.it> Message-ID: X-Mobile: +27 82 9907663 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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) --- Khetan Gajjar (!kg1779) * khetan@iafrica.com ; khetan@os.org.za http://www.os.org.za/~khetan * Talk/Finger khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za FreeBSD enthusiast * http://www2.za.freebsd.org/ Security-wise, NT is a OS with a "kick me" sign taped to it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message