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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!network.ucsd.edu!sdcc12!icogsci2!cg18fbi From: cg18fbi@icogsci2.ucsd.edu (Richard Dante) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Emergency Boot Disk Message-ID: <45816@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> Date: 1 Mar 93 06:17:29 GMT References: <4847@iris.mincom.oz.au> Sender: news@sdcc12.ucsd.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: icogsci2.ucsd.edu In article <4847@iris.mincom.oz.au> paulc@iris.mincom.oz.au (Paul Cameron) writes: >I'm trying to create an Emergency Boot disk on a 3.5" floppy disk. >There's no Format command, so I can't format the disk. Disklabel >won't work on DOS formatted disks. NEWFS won't work because Disklabel >won't work, and MOUNT certainly won't work. > >Can anyone help me out here ? Although I once thought I created a bootable floppy using NEWFS on a DOS formated disk, I know right off the top of my head that you can always dd a boot image (either tiny or fixit) to a disk, mount it and then erase all the contents with rm -rf. Then you will have an empty boot disk. dd if=disk.fs of=/dev/fd0a bs=16k mount /dev/fd0a /mnt cd /mnt rm -rf * Rick Dante