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Date:      Fri, 2 Oct 1998 18:26:15 +0500 (KGT)
From:      CyberPsychotic <fygrave@freenet.bishkek.su>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
Cc:        "Eric S. Nooden" <noodene@beloit.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: A question?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSD.4.02.9810021824470.425-100000@freenet.kg>
In-Reply-To: <199810012049.NAA01004@tao.thought.org>

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> > mounting the floppy.  I did the fdformat, disklabel, and the newfs
> > successfully but when I try to use "mount /mnt" I get the error:  "mount:
> > /mnt: unknown special file or file system."  Have I done something wrong?
> 
> 
> 	Does the file mountpoint /mnt exist?  If not, as root,
> 	you have to create it.

BS. He needs to specify device first. I.G. mount /dev/XXX /mnt
 and speaking of floppy, also specify type of filesystem : -t msdos

 when you specify directory or file instead of device, you'd get such
error.
 


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