Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:25:54 -0500 From: Randy Pratt <rpratt@ezwv.com> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to make ms_dos floppy? Message-ID: <200201101919.g0AJJYd17144@mail.ezwv.com> In-Reply-To: <3C3DDE37@operamail.com> References: <3C3DDE37@operamail.com>
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On Thursday 10 January 2002 12:25 pm, you wrote: > I can't find the command, > I looked for # mkdosfs. This command is cited in > "Complete Freebsd" 3rd rd. on p. 288. > But the cammand has no man pg and is not on my system This must be an oversight in Greg's book. The mkdosfs was replaced with by newfs_msdos (/usr/src/usr.sbin/mkdosfs Revision 1.6, Sun Jul 19 13:41:01 1998). Also, note that the "mformat" command referred to on that same page is not part of the base system. It is a part of the mtools port (/usr/ports/emulators/mtools/) which is discussed on page 289. > I thought I might try # disklabel but my brain > began to melt after the first couple of paragraphs > of that man page. > > Could you either link me to an easy explaination > or give me the command line? Take a look at "man newfs_msdos". It has an example command for creating an msdos filesystem on a formatted floppy disk. Just follow the operations described in the book on pages 286-288 and substitute "newfs_msdos" for "newfs". Here's a typical scenario for creating/using an msdos floppy disk: k6-2# fdformat /dev/rfd0 Format 1440K floppy `/dev/rfd0'? (y/n): y Processing VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV done. k6-2# disklabel -w -r /dev/rfd0 fd1440 k6-2# newfs_msdos -f 1440 -L foo fd0 /dev/fd0: 2847 sectors in 2847 FAT12 clusters (512 bytes/cluster) bps=512 spc=1 res=1 nft=2 rde=224 sec=2880 mid=0xf0 spf=9 spt=18 hds=2 hid=0 k6-2# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt k6-2# cd /mnt k6-2# cp /usr/home/rpratt/somenotes.txt ./ k6-2# ls -l total 1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 168 Jan 10 14:05 somenote.txt k6-2# cd /usr/home/rpratt k6-2# umount /mnt (you can't umount if you're in the /mnt directory) You can now take the floppy and read/write to it in a windows/dos environment. This should get you going. Randy cc'd: leegold <leegold@operamail.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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