Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:14:05 +0100 From: Andrea Campi <andrea+freebsd_stable@webcom.it> To: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newfs_msdos onto an image file Message-ID: <20060115131405.GC1181@webcom.it> In-Reply-To: <20060115124950.GA23753@uk.tiscali.com> References: <20060115123445.GA14271@uk.tiscali.com> <20060115124950.GA23753@uk.tiscali.com>
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On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 12:49:51PM +0000, Brian Candler wrote:
> Furthermore, why do I still have to pretend that the device is a 1440K
> floppy disk? If I remove -f 1440 I get:
>
> # newfs_msdos -h 64 -u 32 -s 256000 -a 125 -F 16 -b 4096 -c 8 /dev/md0
> newfs_msdos: Cannot get number of sectors, Operation not supported
Just a wild guess: have you tried using fdisk? Pretending it is a floppy
is probably working because real floppies don't have a partition table,
whereas all kind of HDs in the DOS world have them.
Try creating just a single slice to cover all disk, and you should be
ready to newfs it.
Bye,
Andrea
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