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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!sgiblab!pacbell.com!amdahl.com!amdahl.uts.amdahl.com!agc From: agc@uts.amdahl.com (Alistair G. Crooks) Subject: Re: how to get netbsd floppies on 1.44" Message-ID: <1994Dec9.095657.14827@uts.amdahl.com> Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA References: <3c43r2$m6v@charybda.sovam.com> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 1994 09:56:57 GMT Lines: 21 In article <3c43r2$m6v@charybda.sovam.com> edgar@sovam.com (Edgar Ter-Danieliantz) writes: > >Hallo everyone! > >I have machine with only 1.44" diskette drive, how I can convert >NetBSD 1.0 distribution disks to 1.44"? >I tryed disklabel -w -B /dev/rfd1a fd|local|ufs >but I got message ' unknown disktype'. The floppy images work fine when written to a 1.44" disc. e.g. dd if=floppy_image of=/dev/rfd0a bs=16k worked fine on my NetBSD/i386 1.0 system. It also works on 1.0a. Alistair -- Alistair G. Crooks (agc@uts.amdahl.com) +44 125 234 6377 Amdahl European HQ, Dogmersfield Park, Hartley Wintney, Hants RG27 8TE, UK. [These are only my opinions, and certainly not those of Amdahl Corporation]