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Re: Warning: Stupid Question Follows +How do I mount a floppy?

To: Dennis Myhand <dmyhand@cox-internet.com>, OpenBSD Mailing List <misc@openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: Warning: Stupid Question Follows +How do I mount a floppy?
From: Kit Halsted <kit@kithalsted.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:46:24 -0500
In-reply-to: <3C7D98A1.F5069FBA@cox-internet.com>
References: <3C7D98A1.F5069FBA@cox-internet.com>
Sender: owner-misc@openbsd.org
At 8:40 PM -0600 2/27/02, Dennis Myhand wrote:
I will start by saying that I read man mount and tried to use the
command listed in the example, since it seemed like that was what I
wanted to do:

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a mnt/floppy

I get an error stating that there is no such directory or file as
"/mnt/floppy."

How do I mount a floppy on an Open BSD 3.0 system?  TNX, Dennis

Ummm...

Didja try:

mkdir /mnt/floppy

first?

Alternately, you can just do:

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt/

as long as you don't have anything else mounted on /mnt.

(Took me a while to figure that out the first time.)

HTH,
-Kit
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