From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 14: 7:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (lcmail2.lc.ca.gov [165.107.12.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B2DD37B403 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:07:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drewt@writeme.com) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0GEX00801UM42E@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:06:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tagalong ([165.107.42.244]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0GEX00DF8ULGXT@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:05:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:05:49 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: RE: how do i format a floppy? In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.2.20010614225554.0205f5b0@mail.cz> To: 'Cynic' , Aaron Namba , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F0239259F9C@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal 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 Did you try the fdformat command as described by Cynic? Try that as I think that's where the disklabel is written. The create your filesystem with newfs. HTH, Drew > -----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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message