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From: Werner Griessl Superuser <croot@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de>
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Subject: Re: Mounting a DOS floppy
To: charlie_conklin@il.us.swissbank.com (Charlie Conklin)
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 09:53:52 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <9509280818.AA01545@ln1d272nwk> from "Charlie Conklin" at Sep 28, 95 09:18:17 am
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I recently installed FreeBSD on my Gateway machine. And it works
> wonderfully for the most part, but I just found myself wishing to
> transfer files from a DOS machine to my FreeBSD machine, and I don't
> know how to do it! It seems that there must be some way to mount a
> DOS filesystem (floppy disk) under FreeBSD, but for the life of me,
> I could not figure out how to do it. Can you do this?
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> - Charlie Conklin		conklic@swissbank.com
> 
Do a "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt"
or use the "m..."-commands from the mtools-package
(m{dir,read,write,.....}).

Werner