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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!metro!basser.cs.su.oz.au!tom From: tom@cs.su.oz.au (Thomas James Jones) Subject: Re: file system on floppy Reply-To: tom@cs.su.oz.au Organization: Basser Department of Computer Science Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 10:09:12 GMT Message-ID: <1993May19.100912.18543@cs.su.oz.au> Keywords: 3868bsd, newfs, file system References: <C6xDvu.65y@unix.portal.com> <9305172255.ab27275@post.demon.co.uk> Sender: news@cs.su.oz.au (News) Lines: 37 In article <9305172255.ab27275@post.demon.co.uk>, damian@centrix.demon.co.uk (damian) writes: |> In article <C6xDvu.65y@unix.portal.com> chris@shell.portal.com (Chris - Ding) writes: |> >Hi, |> > |> >I am trying to create a file system on a 1.44M floppy. |> >What I did is: |> > |> >newfs -T in3 /dev/rfd0b /mnt |> > |> >But nothing happend. 'in3' is defined in /etc/disktab. |> > |> >should I first format the floppy ? I want to do so, but |> >can find any format command. |> |> Yes! And there isn't a format command under 386BSD that I know of. |> Your best bet is to format the disk under DOS (DOS just shoves some |> extra stuff on top of the 'unix' format, which will just get overwritten). |> |> You don't have DOS? Oh dear we have a problem. |> |> Damian |> -- |> +----------------------------+------------------------------------------------+ |> | Damian Ivereigh | If you can't suss out what this is replying to | |> | damian@centrix.demon.co.uk | get a threaded news reader, like trn. :-) | |> | Twickenham, U.K. | This is the best way to cut wasted traffic | |> +----------------------------+------------------------------------------------+ I guess another alternative is to use rawrite to create a bootable Unix floppy and then use rm -rf .* to clean it up. Is this a bad idea?? Just a thought anyway, tom