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

To: "Juan Vera" <core.lists.openbsd-misc@core-sdi.com>, <misc@openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: Warning: Stupid Question Follows +How do I mount a floppy?
From: "Peter" <peter@easynix.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 14:32:11 -0500
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Of course, we also can do:
/mnt/juan
/mnt/vera
Are you happy now?
Peter



> 'For the future, make it easier'  you better get used
> to read man pages, /mnt/{floppy, cdrom} are just
> conventions.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Peter <core.lists.openbsd-misc@core-sdi.com>
> To: <misc@openbsd.org>
> <misc@openbsd.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 12:09 AM
> Subject: Re: Warning: Stupid Question Follows +How do I mount a
floppy?
>
>
> > For the future, make it easier:
> > mkdir /mnt/floppy
> > mkdir /mnt/cdrom
> > vi /etc/fstab
> > edit the fstab like:
> > /dev/fd0a /mnt/floppy msdos noauto,rw 0 0
> > /dev/cd0a /mnt/cdrom cd9660 noauto,ro 0 0
> >
> > save it with shift zz or shift wq
> > now just do a mount /mnt/floppy or mount /mnt/cdrom
> > Peter
> >
> >
> > > 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
>
>
> --- for a personal reply use: "Juan Vera" <juan@core-sdi.com>

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