From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jan 31 16: 0:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B12037B405 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 16:00:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g11002V51559; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 16:00:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Received: from Kain.sumuk.de (Kain.sumuk.de [213.221.86.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F0B037B404 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:56:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from Moses.earth.sol (Moses.earth.sol [192.168.1.1]) by Kain.sumuk.de (8.11.6/8.11.5) with ESMTP id g0VNun935496 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 00:56:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from martin@sumuk.de) Received: (from vincent@localhost) by Moses.earth.sol (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0VNuml56066; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 00:56:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from vincent) Message-Id: <200201312356.g0VNuml56066@sumuk.de> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 00:56:48 +0100 (CET) From: Martin Heinen Reply-To: Martin Heinen To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.113 Subject: docs/34509: [PATCH] cosmetic for Floppy section Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Number: 34509 >Category: docs >Synopsis: [PATCH] cosmetic for Floppy section >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Jan 31 16:00:02 PST 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Martin Heinen >Release: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD Moses.earth.sol 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Sat Dec 22 07:35:30 CET 2001 toor@Moses.earth.sol:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MOSES i386 >Description: throught -> through put variable parts inside >How-To-Repeat: read the section 'Floppy disks' in the handbook >Fix: Index: chapter.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /u/cvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.78 diff -u -r1.78 chapter.sgml --- chapter.sgml 31 Jan 2002 08:10:08 -0000 1.78 +++ chapter.sgml 31 Jan 2002 23:36:03 -0000 @@ -2022,17 +2022,17 @@ The device - Floppy disks are accessed throught entries in + Floppy disks are accessed through entries in /dev (like any other device). To access the - raw floppy disk you can use /dev/rfdX, - where X stands for the drive number, usually 0. When the disk is - formatted you can use /dev/fdX, or + raw floppy disk you can use /dev/rfdX, + where X stands for the drive number, usually 0. When the disk is + formatted you can use /dev/fdX, or whichever of the other devices named - /dev/fdXY, where Y stands for a + /dev/fdXY, where Y stands for a letter. These are all the same. Other important devices are - /dev/fdX.size, where size is a floppy disk + /dev/fdX.size, where size is a floppy disk size in kilobytes. These entries are used at low-level format time to determine the disk size. @@ -2053,7 +2053,7 @@ To format the floppy at a low-level fashion you need to use fdformat. This utility expects the device name as an argument. We will use those - /dev/fdX.size devices, which will allow us + /dev/fdX.size devices, which will allow us to format the floppy to its real size, or force them. So you insert a new 3.5inch floppy disk in your drive and issue: @@ -2092,9 +2092,9 @@ You can run now disklabel like: - &prompt.root; /sbin/disklabel -B -r -w /dev/rfd0 fd(size) + &prompt.root; /sbin/disklabel -B -r -w /dev/rfd0 fdsize - Replace fd(size) with fd1440, fd1720 or whichever size you + Replace fdsize with fd1440, fd1720 or whichever size you want. The last field instructs disklabel which entry to take from /etc/disktab to use. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message