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   Matt Costanza to All   
   BeOS 4.5 reading MS-DOS disks   
   11 Dec 03 17:48:17   
   
   From: mcostanza@austin.rr.com   
      
   I have installed BeOS on a Dell Notebook with some success. I'm   
   currently trying to move some Ethernet drivers over to the notebook to   
   support the PCMCIA Ethernet card. I have managed to get these drivers   
   onto a MS-DOS floppy disk but cannot seem to get BeOS to recognize the   
   disk. I have changed the mount settings to accept all disks. I then go   
   through the manual mount floppy command. BeOS responds with "unable to   
   read disk or disk is not formatted" error.   
      
   I was under the assumption that BeOS supported mounting of multiple disk   
   formats as stated in the BeOS bible. Am I missing something here or will   
   BeOS not read MS-DOS formatted floppy disks?   
      
   Thanks in advance for any info.   
      
   Regards,   
   --   
   Matt Costanza   
   Austin, Tx USA   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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