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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!rucs!rucs2!bmyers From: bmyers@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu (B.Myers) Subject: Re: How to format UNIX floppies under 386BSD Message-ID: <1992Oct6.145844.669@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu> Organization: Radford University References: <1992Sep29.165042.1@vax.sonoma.edu> <wutcd.718055285@hadrian> <1992Oct5.153315.22272@ninja.zso.dec.com> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 14:58:44 GMT Lines: 16 In article <1992Oct5.153315.22272@ninja.zso.dec.com> alan@ulka.zso.dec.com (F. Alan Jones) writes: > >What we really need is public domain lower level format code. If >someone can give me a pointer, I'll look into porting it. I only >have a copy of DOS 3.3, and I'll spend several weekends on this >project before I spend a dime on DOS. Religious reasons. > >Alan Then don't spend it. Borrow a boot floppy from a friend with the format command on it. Format your disks. The format your floppies in unix with: newfs /dev/fd?a floppy? 0 or 1---^ ^-- 3 or 5 which floppy? 3.5" or 5.25" that should do it.