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   Message 296 of 1,512   
   Sinclair Q.L. aka Phoebus to Matt Costanza   
   Re: BeOS 4.5 reading MS-DOS disks   
   11 Dec 03 20:00:23   
   
   From: s.p.a.m.@sux.com   
      
   Matt Costanza wrote:   
      
   > 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   
   >   
      
   I am not sure about BeOS 4.5 but I am sure that 5.x does. I just did it   
   to make sure (never had before actually). Maybe BeOS 4.5 supports only   
   hard disks/CD-ROMs   
      
   Phoebus   
      
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