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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!telebit!bjork
From: bjork@telebit.com (Steven Bjork)
Subject: You *can* disklabel floppys
Message-ID: <1992Nov4.053452.12744@telebit.com>
Originator: bjork@napa
Keywords: ignore error message
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Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 05:34:52 GMT
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You *can* disklabel floppys. 

I take the 3" and cd /usr/mdec. Then, use:

disklabel -w -r fd0a floppy3 yourlabelmsg fdboot bootfd

....and ignore the error message :). After this is done, you
should be able to make a file system:

newfs fd0a floppy3

....and fsck for luck, then mount it and cp away.

--Steven the skeptic