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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 15:58:52 -0500
From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
To: lix@cs.pdx.edu, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: floppy disk format
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>Hi,  I would like to know how could I convert a dos formated floppy
>on FreeBSD system so that FreeBSD can read it.  If someone can give me
>a hint how to do this, I would appreciate very much.

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt  # Mounts A: DOS formatted floppy as /mnt
mount -t msdos -o ro /dev/fd0 /mnt # Same but as readonly.

Dan Eischen
deischen@iworks.interWorks.org