From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Sep 8 11:15:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from trill.hh.se (trill.hh.se [194.47.5.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0E2137B424 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 11:15:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gs177.gsten.hh.se (chip@gs177.gsten.hh.se [194.47.16.177]) by trill.hh.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA05050; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 20:15:44 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <39B92309.C2C65CE7@acuson.com> Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 20:15:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Joel Bjork To: David Johnson Subject: Re: dos floppies Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, Rick Hamell Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > -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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Joel Bjork Date: 08-Sep-00 Time: 20:15:44 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message