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From: s902113@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Luke Mewburn)
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Subject: Re: [386bsd] Trouble with disklabel & floppies
Date: 16 Jan 1993 14:14:34 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
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blackett@bbn.com (Kent Blackett) writes:
>I'm having trouble using "disklabel" to initialize floppies. These are
>formatted floppies, both 3.5 and 5.25. I have duplicated the symptom on two
>machines (both 486s, one with IDE controller, other with SCSI only) and with
>two different kernels, namely the fixit disk and the current "rachel" kernel.)
>Also, the symptom is tame whether using 3.5 or 5.25 floppies.
>OK, enough background. Now on to the problem. It seems I can boot from a
>floppy, mount a floppy, dd to or from a floppy, but I can't disklabel a
>floppy.
>I give the command:
>disklabel -w 0r fd1a 5in "scratch"
>and I get the errors:
>disklabel: ioctl DIOCSDINFO: Device not configured
>ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Device not configured
>I'm assuming I'm doing something stupid, but I've checked the bug list, and
>the unofficial FAQ, and haven't found anything to help.
>Any ideas?
Well, someone else a while ago posted a note on how to disklabel
floppies and gave a similar command to you (sans the typo :) and said
'ignore the error'
So, what I've done is taken a blank, Mossdos formatted floppy and
typed:
disklabel -w -r fd0a floppy3 "blah" /usr/mdec/fdboot /usr/mdec/bootfd
# ignore the error here
newfs -m 0 /dev/fd0a # to give more space - should also decrement inodes :)
and cpio-ed the stuff from the fixit floppy to the 1.44MB newfloppy
with my new kernal.. (just did this about 2 hrs ago)
PS: Why didn't I just copy the disk? cause the fixit floppy is about
150K < than a 1.44MB floppy and I need that extra space for my bigger
kernel :)
>Thanks,
>Kent Blackett
>blackett@bbn.com
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Luke Mewburn [Zak] zak@rmit.edu.au
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