Re: mounting/unmounting devices for newbies

[bob kehs ksd org]

Hmm, maby it would be better to modify the kernel so that you can mount a
device to a mount point as well as a filesystem to a mount point.
Disabeling cashing as well, so for example
if you mounted /dev/fd0 in /mnt/floppy, it would work just like a: in dos

On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Harold Campbell wrote:

> I'm fairly certain dosemu directly handles the floppy drive. The
> filesystem thereon is never mounted. If you were to mount the floppy and
> use the redir stuff in dosemu you'd lose the yank in/out semantics once
> again.
> 
> Ben Frantzdale wrote:
> > 
> > I must admit, I know very little about this relm, but I do know that
> > dosemu handles disks like dos should (put it it/yank it out)
> > 
> > --ben
> 
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> Harold
> 
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