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To: Willem van den Bosch <willem@onthenet.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Mounting floppy
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On Mon, 26 May 1997, Willem van den Bosch wrote:

> I have just installed FreeBSD 2.2.1 and seems to have a problem getting a
> floppy
> mounted.
> 
> after formatting a disc "fdformat -f 1440 /dev/fd0"
> the command "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt"
> gives the following message "/dev/fd0 on /mnt: Incorrect super block."

why only 1440?  try this:

          fdformat  -qf1720          /dev/fd0.1720        &&
          disklabel -Bw              /dev/fd0.1720 fd1720 &&
          newfs -t2 -u21 -l1 -i65536 /dev/fd0.1720

> Any help would be appreciated
> 
> Regards Willem
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