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Date:      Thu, 30 Oct 1997 10:57:41 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Mike <sturdee@pinto.sd.cybernex.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971030105658.17844B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199710300523.XAA28141@pinto.sd.cybernex.net>

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uOn Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Mike wrote:

> How do I get stuff from a floppy disk in bsd?

Do you mean, how do you mount a floppy?

Simple.  For MSDOS formatted disks:

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt

And for UNIX formatted disks:

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt

The disk will appear under /mnt.  You need to be root to do this.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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