From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 13:50:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from k0r3.reflektor.cz (k0r3.reflektor.cz [212.24.129.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9538537B405 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:50:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cynic@mail.cz) Received: (qmail 18355 invoked by uid 202); 14 Jun 2001 20:50:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zvahlav.mail.cz) (212.24.143.100) by k0r3.reflektor.cz with SMTP; 14 Jun 2001 20:50:26 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010614225554.0205f5b0@mail.cz> X-Sender: cynic@mail.cz X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 22:58:34 +0200 To: "Aaron Namba" , From: Cynic Subject: Re: how do i format a floppy? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 hi there, what filesystem do you want on the floppy? I use this to create FAT floppies: fdformat -yf 1440 fd0 newfs_msdos -f 1440 fd0 At 22:44 14.6. 2001, Aaron Namba wrote the following: -------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ------end of quote------ cynic@mail.cz ------------- And the eyes of them both were opened and they saw that their files were world readable and writable, so they chmoded 600 their files. - Book of Installation chapt 3 sec 7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message