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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 18:06:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Chris Coleman <chris@bb.cc.wa.us>
To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: Formatting FreeBSD Floppies.
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On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Julian Elischer wrote:

> Formatting doesn't create the filesystem
> it just does a low-level format.
> you then need to do
> disklabel -r /dev/rfd0 floppy3
> newfs /dev/rfd0a
> THEN you can start writing stuff to the floppy.
> however that's still a long way from a bootable floppy..
> 

Thanks, I figured out how to do it.

  fdformat fd0
  disklabel -Brw fd0 floppy3
  newfs fd0
  mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
  kzip /kernel.GENERIC
  cp /kernel.GENERIC.kz /mnt
  cp boot.help /mnt
  cp boot.config /mnt
  umount /mnt

Now it just dies with 'init not found' 'panic: no init'

	-Chris