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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk!lessen From: lessen@axion.bt.co.uk (Lee Essen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: file system on floppy Date: 19 May 1993 10:24:22 GMT Organization: BT Laboratories Lines: 27 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1td1sm$ov2@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> References: <C6xDvu.65y@unix.portal.com> <9305172255.ab27275@post.demon.co.uk> <1993May19.100912.18543@cs.su.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: jammy.axion.bt.co.uk Keywords: 3868bsd, newfs, file system In article <1993May19.100912.18543@cs.su.oz.au>, tom@cs.su.oz.au (Thomas James Jones) writes: |> 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: |> |> 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 |> 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 You can't do that!! You can't rawrite to an unformatted floppy!! And since rawrite is a DOS utility you have to have DOS to run it (in which case you can use format anyway!) Lee.