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Subject: RE: how to make ms_dos floppy?
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Sorry to top post.

Whoa, there's  a lot of cmds below.
Shouldn't it just be:
1) lowlevel format
with fdformat 
2) create ms dos (fat12) file system
with newfs_msdos

The man pages are brutal for me to understand.
I will give it a try. Thanks.









>Also, note that the "mformat" command referred to on that same page is not
>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# /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


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