Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 19:13:06 -0400 From: Aaron Jeremias Luz <aaron@csh.rit.edu> To: Brendan Kosowski <brendan@bmkind.lnk.telstra.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting an MS-DOS floppy Message-ID: <19980524191306.08666@homenet> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980525145424.153A-100000@bmkind.lnk.telstra.net>; from Brendan Kosowski on Mon, May 25, 1998 at 02:57:05PM -1000 References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980525145424.153A-100000@bmkind.lnk.telstra.net>
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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
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