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From: bmarcum@iglou.com
Subject: Re: Accessing /dev/fd0
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On 1998-08-14 news-replies@outlinepro.co.uk said:
   >I have installed minix onto an old PS/2/Valuepoint machine and am
   >finding my way around, mostly!
   >I cannot, however, get /dev/fd0 to mount in any way. I can tar onto
   >it but can never mount it without running mkfs on the device. I
If you use the command "tar cf /dev/fd0", you should not try to mount the
disk, to extract the files you simply use "tar xf /dev/fd0"

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