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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM>
Subject: Re: how to make a bsd formatted floppy disk
To: Carey Nairn <cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au>
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On Tue, 12 Sep 1995, Carey Nairn wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> this is something I have never wanted to do before but now would like to...
> 
> I have used fdformat to format the floppy and then put a disklabel on it 
> but I am unable to mount the disk.  What am I missing ?

	/sbin/newfs -t 2 -u 18 fd0   # assuming 1.44MB floppy

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