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From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr)
Subject: Re: How to format a floppy (not in FAQ)?
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 08:50:40 GMT
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Dave Burgess (burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil) wrote:
: In article <1993Aug23.173158.12826@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us writes:
: >So, I looked in the FAQ and there's a section entitled "How to format
: >a floppy," but it is blank!  Does this mean it's impossible?  Or is it
: >something that only wizards are allowed to do?
: >
: >

: Yup, there sure is.

: Does it mean that it is impossible?  No.

: Does it mean I don't have the first CLUE how to do it?  Yes.

: Wizards?  Probably not.  There was a rather heated exchange about this
: maybe six months ago.  The jist of it was that there was a program for
: formatting floppies, and the author could do it, but the author thought 
: the requestor was really rude...

: You get the idea, I hope.
: With any luck at all, someone that DOES have a clue will quietly write
: up a short article for inclusion in the FAQ and that step will then be
: updated.  (HINT!!)
:
	For formatting a floppy to 386bsd I will post the article
	I saw by someone else to comp.os.386bsd.development &misc.

	For previously unformatted diskettes use an alternate formater
	like the one from MS-DOS.

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Jesus Monroy Jr                                          jmonroy@netcom.com
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