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From: serini@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Piero Serini)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] Disklabeling a DOS formatted floppy
References: <RUSSO.92Nov22145945@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu>
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 22:40:42 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Nov22.224042.1089@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>
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russo@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Thomas Russo) writes:
>No, I don't want to know how to low-level format a floppy -- I know I
>need to do that from DOS.
>What I WANT to do now is to make a filesystem on a floppy (either 5.25
>or 3.5in), just like the dist.fs and fixit.fs floppies have
>filesystems, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to do it.
# newfs device ploppy-type
example: in drive a: we have a 5inch 1.2 Mb disk, then:
newfs /dev/fd0a floppy5
>--
>Thomas Russo russo@nile.chem.columbia.edu
>Department of Chemistry and Center for Biomolecular Simulation
>Columbia University
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