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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: Mounting floppy
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970526160432.0079fe10@onthenet.com.au> from Willem van den Bosch at "May 26, 97 04:04:32 pm"
To: willem@onthenet.com.au (Willem van den Bosch)
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 09:05:34 +0200 (MET DST)
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> 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."

You'll have to disklabel(8) the floppy and create a new filesystem on it
with newfs(8). You might want to check /etc/disktab for some documentation
on it.

Wolfgang