Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:49:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrew Gould <andrewgould@yahoo.com> To: Ali Nasseh <a_nasseh@yahoo.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moving data from windows to freebsd Message-ID: <20020422194911.83880.qmail@web13402.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020422152128.83713.qmail@web10304.mail.yahoo.com>
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I mount floppies to /floppy. The relevant line in /etc/fstab is: /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw,noauto 0 0 To mount a floppy, I just execute: mount /floppy It's like Linux; but the filesystem is called msdos rather than vfat. Best of luck, Andrew Gould --- Ali Nasseh <a_nasseh@yahoo.com> wrote: > hi, > i have some data under windows 98 and i got to read > them under freebsd > (i shared them in a x86 box). > i can accomplish this task clearly under > linux(redhat > 7.2), > but when i try to mount the floppy nder freebsd > with: > #mount /dev/fd0 /mnt > error message "incorrect super block" appears. > the questions are: > 1.if i format a floppy under windows98 and copy some > data to it, > is there a chance to read that data(or mount that > floppy) under freebsd? > 2.can freebsd to read the fat(16 or 32)? if so, how? > (tell me please, if i can move some data in a > floppy > from windows to freebsd) > 3.what's the error message "incorrect super block" > for, and > how can fix it? > 4.i can't label my floppy after i format it with > fdformat command > under freebsd? is that neccessary for mounting > floppies? > > --thanx a lot > --a. nasseh > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more > http://games.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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