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From: guyd@austin.ibm.com (Guy Dawson)
Subject: Re: Formatting floppies
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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 23:45:07 GMT
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In article <1993Feb25.185740.24521@aristo.tau.ac.il>, eilon@aristo.tau.ac.il (Eilon Gishri) writes:
> Marc Wandschneider (storm@cs.mcgill.ca) wrote:
>
> : How does one format floppies...? We want to transfer files from
> : one PC with 386bsd to another, and mwrite seems to be crashing all th etime.
>
> : We tried to disklabel -w -r fd0a floppy5, but we got some errors
> : about unconfigured devices, and then newfs didn't work.
>
> : How do we get this going...?
>
> : Toodlepip!
> : marc 'em.
> : --
> : storm@cs.mcgill.ca McGill P.O.W Camp "Oh crap---It's not
> : Marc Wandschneider Montreal, CANADA random enough"
> : Any opinions expressed are not mine, but those of the Demon Lord
> : Yeegeheeegenogohugu who possessed me whilst I munched on Raisin Bran.
>
> try using newfs /dev/rfd0a floppy5.
>
> Eilon.
No! If I read this question properly one PC has 386BSD and the other has
MS-DROS - hence the use of mwrite.
If that is the case then just format the floppy under MS-DROS ( or DR-DONT(tm) )
and mwrite should work fine. This assumes that the mtools config file is ok.
Guy
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