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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!mcsun!sunic!ugle.unit.no!ugle.unit.no!he From: Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no Subject: [NetBSD] Labeling a floppy? Message-ID: <1993Jun30.202250.4404@ugle.unit.no> Originator: he@ugle.unit.no Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator) Organization: University of Trondheim, Norway Date: Wed, 30 Jun 93 20:22:50 GMT Lines: 19 Hi, I am trying to label a floppy disk with an interim version of NetBSD 0.8 without too much success... This is in preparation of trying to install new boot blocks on the floppy before I install them on the hard disk. If I try # disklabel -w -r /dev/rfd0a floppy I get back: disklabel: ioctl DIOCSDINFO: Device not configured ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Device not configured and the machine immediately reboots (I have DDB configured, but it skips that). Any idea of how I should go about labeling a floppy disk and installing boot blocks on it? - Havard