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From: Andrew <perrya@python.shoal.net.au>
To: Patrick Troy <ptroy@mail.hq.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Reading the contents of a floppy drive in unix
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Depends if it's a dos floppy or not.

If it's a dos floppy then:
mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt

then the contents of the floppy will be available through /mnt

if not then:
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt

Andrew Perry
perrya@shoal.net.au

On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Patrick Troy wrote:

> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:20:20 -0500
> From: Patrick Troy <ptroy@mail.hq.nasa.gov>
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Reading the contents of a floppy drive in unix
> 
> Using BSD how do I do it?
>