From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 13:44:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zero.namba1.com (zero.namba1.com [64.75.169.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FFB937B40A for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:44:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aaron@namba1.com) Received: from [134.173.120.114] by zero.namba1.com (NTMail 5.02.0001/QC8568.34.ce8cdec7) with ESMTP id qezaaaaa for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:44:10 -1000 From: "Aaron Namba" To: Subject: how do i format a floppy? Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:44:09 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Here's a simple one: I formatted a floppy using: > fdformat /dev/fd0.1440 Now I want to mount it, but that didn't work so I figure I need to create a file system on it first using newfs. However, newfs complains that I need to use disklabel. That I am not sure how to do. Please advise. - - - - - - - - - - Aaron Namba (aaron@namba1.com) "Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do." --Bruce Crampton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message