From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 29 13: 8: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingsun2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingsun2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2629414D06 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 13:07:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bf20761@binghamton.edu) Received: from localhost (bf20761@localhost) by bingsun2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.8.7/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA06556; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 16:03:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 16:03:55 -0500 (EST) From: zhihuizhang X-Sender: bf20761@bingsun2 To: Jilani Khaldi Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting a floppy disk... In-Reply-To: <36FEB6BF.34F5F0CD@agata.clio.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Jilani Khaldi wrote: > Hi all, > when I do: > mount /dev/fd0 /mnt > I receive the message: > incorrect type block > > I am missing something? I usually use # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy and then cp command to copy files from a DOS diskette to FreeBSD or vice versa. You must create a directory like /floppy and umount the diskette later. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message