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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!Austria.EU.net!newsfeed.ACO.net!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!News.Uni-Marburg.DE!news.th-darmstadt.de!fauern!lrz-muenchen.de!uni-regensburg.de!faui0n.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz 401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: floppy disklabel problems Date: 15 Oct 1995 17:35:22 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 41 Message-ID: <45rd8a$koi@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <45lu09$buo@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Keywords: floppy disklabel bootable James F. Hranicky <jfh@cis.ufl.edu> wrote: >[root@bounce-bsd:/root] # disklabel -w -B -b /usr/mdec/fdboot -s >/usr/mdec/bootfd /dev/rfd0a floppy disklabel -r -w -B fd0 floppy is better. >[root@bounce-bsd:/root] # newfs /dev/rfd0a >Warning: calculated sectors per cylinder (4096) disagrees with disk label (36) >Warning: Block size and bytes per inode restrict cylinders per group to 5. >Warning: 1216 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated >/dev/rfd0a: 2880 sectors in 1 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors > 1.4MB in 1 cyl groups (5 c/g, 10.00MB/g, 4448 i/g) >super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: > 32, >------ > >The info from df : > >[root@bounce-bsd:/root] # mount /dev/fd0a /mnt >[root@bounce-bsd:/root] # df /mnt >Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >/dev/fd0a 855 0 786 0% /mnt > > >Am I doing something wrong? I can't even fit a kernel on here. >Is there something else I'm supposed to do? Perhaps reading the man page for newfs(8)? :-) newfs -t 0 -u 0 -l 1 -i 65536 /dev/rfd0a should be a better version to start with. You've simply been wasting too much space in useless i-nodes. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)