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From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: BSD Filesystem on FLOPPIES
Date: 27 Jan 1994 19:09:04 +1030
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achimpje@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joachim Schulz) writes:
>Hi!
>I have a question again, because I want to be a fan of NetBSD, but it is not
>so easy. I want to create a NetBSD Filesystem on a floppy disk. Anybody out
>there with experiences in doing that.?
The following (as root) should do:
For 3.5" (1.44MB) in drive A:
# newfs -T floppy /dev/rfd0a
for 5.25" (1.2MB) in drive A:
# newfs -T floppy5 /dev/rfd0a
For 3.5" (1.44MB) in drive B:
# newfs -T floppy /dev/rfd1a
for 5.25" (1.2MB) in drive B:
# newfs -T floppy5 /dev/rfd1a
Cheers
Leigh
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