From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 13:58:57 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 CA33337B40D for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:58:41 -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 xezaaaaa for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:58:39 -1000 From: "Aaron Namba" To: "Cynic" , Subject: RE: how do i format a floppy? Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:58:38 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010614225554.0205f5b0@mail.cz> 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 I want to use ufs, does that work for floppies? I thought so but I could be wrong. newfs_msdos -f 1440 fd0 works, but newfs -f 1440 fd0 complains about needing a disklabel. -----Original Message----- From: Cynic [mailto:cynic@mail.cz] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 1:59 PM To: Aaron Namba; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do i format a floppy? 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