From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 8 13:33:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA03468 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 13:33:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from bb.cc.wa.us (root@aries.bb.cc.wa.us [134.39.181.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA03452 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 13:33:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@bb.cc.wa.us) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by bb.cc.wa.us (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA17028 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 13:43:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 13:43:04 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Coleman To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Formatting FreeBSD Floppies. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am wanting to format a floppy as a FreeBSD partition and make it bootable. I have looked into 'fdformat' but the floppies that I have formatted, I cant seem to mount them. It still thinks they are DOS disks I think. At least it says that they have DOS boot blocks. It keeps giving me Incorrect super blocks. This is using 2.2.5-RELEASE (or near there) So how do I make a bootable FreeBSD Floppy disk? Do I have to create a floppy image and use 'dd'? I hope not. Christopher J. Coleman (whyareyou@lookingforme.com) Computer Support Analyst I (509)-762-6341 FreeBSD Book Project: http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/