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From: Zahemszky Gabor <zgabor@CoDe.hu>
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Subject: Re: floppy preparation
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD questions)
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 14:30:43 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970119183306.227A-100000@lostfork> from Andre LeClaire at "Jan 19, 97 06:49:44 pm"
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> >
> > How do I make a 1.44 MB floppy unix-usable?  I've been messing around with 
> > newfs, fdformat and disklabel for a half-hour and I can't get it right.
> > 
> Using 1st floppy drive:
> fdformat /dev/rfd0
> disklabel -w -r /dev/rfd0 fd1440
> disklabel -r /dev/rfd0
> newfs -t 2 -u 18 /dev/rfd0
> 
> The above excerpted from Greg Lehey's excellent book "The Complete 
> FreeBSD", pages 184-186.

And most of it can found by:
more /etc/disktab
(well, missing the -t 2 and -u 18 options.)

Bye, Gabor