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Date:      Fri, 08 Sep 2000 20:15:44 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Joel Bjork <u98jobj@stud.hh.se>
To:        David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>
Subject:   Re: dos floppies
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000908201544.u98jobj@stud.hh.se>
In-Reply-To: <39B92309.C2C65CE7@acuson.com>

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> -questions is great, but it has three major drawbacks:
> 
> A) people subscribing to -questions to get answers to complicated
> question on L,U,and A, don't want to see the list plugged with questions
> on how to mount DOS floppies.
> 
A lot of newbiequestions are also asked and for the year or so that I've
subscribed I've never seen someone complain.

> B) people wanting to know how to mount DOS floppies don't want to know
> about the intricacies of L, U and A.
> 
You don't have to subscribe, you can browse the archives on
www.freebsd.com/support.html#mailing-list .

> C) the message volume in -questions is extremely high.
> 
See B, your question was answered just last week if I remember and the answer
was:

mount_msdos  /dev/fd0 /mnt

or

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt


> Just a thought...
> 
> David
> 
> 
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Date: 08-Sep-00
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