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Date:      Wed, 8 Jul 1998 11:48:52 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        marian parker <marian.parker@mindspring.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: sio problems (was: mouse problems)
Message-ID:  <19980708114852.D7792@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980707210733.006b13e0@pop.mindspring.com>; from marian parker on Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 09:07:33PM -0500
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On Tuesday,  7 July 1998 at 21:07:33 -0500, marian parker wrote:
> How do I mount an MSDOS floppy?

I've never done this.  Use mtools instead: it's in the packages on the
CD-ROM.  Then do:

  $ mcopy /tmp/foo a:

The commands that mtools understands are mattrib, mbadblocks, mcd,
mcopy, mdel, mdeltree, mdir, mdu mformat, minfo, mlabel, mmd, mmount,
mpartition, mrd, mread mmove, mren, mshowfat, mtoolstest, mtype,
mwrite, mzip, which correspond to the DOS names without the inital m
(e.g. the DOS COPY comamand becomes mcopy).  See the man page for
mtools for further information.

If you have difficulty installing mtools, you can try this:

  # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt
  # copy /tmp/foo /mnt
  # umount /mnt

Greg
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