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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI floppies/HD on FreeBSD?
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 21:00:51 -0700
Organization: Me
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Mike Holling wrote:
] Why can't I read the other floppy on the
] FreeBSD system? If it's just tarred straight to floppy why do the
] instructions say to use /dev/fd0a instead of /dev/fd0?
fd0a skips the area normally reserved for the disklabel.
fd0 does not.
Clearly the disklabels are different.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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