Mount floppy (Gotta love 'Nix...)

Teilhard Knight teilhk at hotpost.co.uk
Mon Mar 1 10:33:22 PST 2004


> Teilhard Knight wrote:
>
> >I would appreciate if someone would told me how to mount my floppy. If
you
> >could tell me the exact entries in the fstab file would be great. Thank
you.
> >
> >Teilhard
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> You've already received good suggestions,
> and answers, and pointers to the "other"
> list --- or Google, whatever, IIRC.  And this
> one's *not* for fstab.  Just wanted to mention
> this for its humor ... everybody needs that on
> Monday, right? :-)
>
> First off, understand that I've been thinking
> about writing a tongue-in-cheek article
> called something like "FreeBSD for MSDOS
> users" ... mostly for my own entertainment,
> I suppose.
>
> Anyway, this is likely comfy for ex-DOS people.
> Make sure you've created /floppy, then
> put this in /root/.cshrc or /root/.profile, or
> wherever you keep root's aliases... here's
> my line from /root/.cshrc:
>
> alias a:   "mount_msdosfs /dev/fd0 /floppy && cd /floppy && ls -l"
>
> :-D

Nice suggestion, thanks.

:o)

Teilhard.

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