From: earlcp@idirect.com   
      
   Matt Costanza  :   
      
   > 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?   
      
   Sometimes I can't read a MS-DOS disk too, what I find works for me is to wait   
   for the BIOS to start booting BeOS, when you see the BeOS splash screen on   
   the screen put your floppy disk in before BeOS itself is booted.  At that   
   point is the disk is not already mounted (depends on boot settings) then the   
   disk can be mounted.   
      
              Earl Colby Pottinger   
      
   PS I am using 5.0.3.   
      
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