>Actually the mount -t msdos command works very well.  The correct
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>command is
>        mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
>                ^^^^^^^
>in my case.
 
As I said to Jim Winstead and others, it's probably broken because I
don't have 0.97.1 root disk, just 0.97.
 
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>I'm new to unix, but isn't the ls etc. pipe doing exactly what you
>asked?  I.E. printing the first 20 lines of a file (head -20) where
>file is (ls -al).  In other words the first lines of the directory?
 
It does do exactly what I expect (in this case, the first 20 lines of
the directory) - up to the "broken pipe" message.