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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!unet!blunt!dsilvia From: dsilvia@blunt.net.com (Dave Silvia) Subject: Re: Format Floopy..Make file system Message-ID: <1993Mar7.203026.11132@unet.net.com> Sender: news@unet.net.com Nntp-Posting-Host: blunt Organization: Network Equipment Technologies References: <1nbl78INNt7f@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1993 20:30:26 GMT Lines: 38 In article <1nbl78INNt7f@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> s913543@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Joe Demian) writes: >Um... I was wondering if someone could tell me how I can simply >format a floppy disk in 386bsd format in order to create a file system >on a: or b: ... (excuse the ignorance) :) > >Any help will be appreciated. > Sure! Depending on what type of floppy drive. I have both a 1.2 and a 1.44. There is an entry already in /etc/disktab for the 1.44. You can clone it for the 1.2. (or maybe it's the other way around? Oh, well, it amounts to the same thing ;^} ). Here's how the entries look on my machine: floppy|floppy3|3in|3.5in High Density Floppy:\ :ty=floppy:se#512:nt#2:rm#300:ns#18:nc#80:\ :pa#2880:oa#0:ba#4096:fa#512: floppy5|5in|5.25in High Density Floppy:\ :ty=floppy:se#512:nt#2:rm#300:ns#15:nc#80:\ :pa#2400:oa#0:ba#4096:fa#512: Now, place a diskette in the drive and execute: newfs /dev/rfd0a floppy for a: 1.44 drive: newfs /dev/rfd1a floppy for b: 1.44 drive. You would do similarly for a 1.2 drive using floppy5. Once newfs'd, I mount the floppy and go! E.G.: mount /dev/fd1a /mnt Dave S.