From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 26 09:02:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA22260 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 09:02:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ultra1.dreamscape.com (ultra1.dreamscape.com [206.64.128.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA22057 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 09:01:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aaron@csh.rit.edu) Received: from thud.homenet (ua29.dreamscape.com [206.114.185.62]) by ultra1.dreamscape.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id MAA01988; Tue, 26 May 1998 12:00:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from aaron@localhost) by thud.homenet (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA00459; Sun, 24 May 1998 19:13:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from aaron) Message-ID: <19980524191306.08666@homenet> Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 19:13:06 -0400 From: Aaron Jeremias Luz To: Brendan Kosowski Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting an MS-DOS floppy References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Brendan Kosowski on Mon, May 25, 1998 at 02:57:05PM -1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 02:57:05PM -1000, Brendan Kosowski wrote: > > How do I mount an MS-DOS floppy in the A: drive. > Create the mount point /floppy and add the following to /etc/fstab. # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw,noauto 0 0 Then you can simply mount and unmount /floppy. For example: root@thud:~# mount /floppy You may also want to check out /usr/ports/emulators/mtools which provides a set of DOS like file commands that automatically mount and unmount the floppy drive for you. Aaron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message