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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
> 
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