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Date:      Mon, 26 May 2003 20:11:35 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        "Remington L." <madriax@garlic.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORg
Subject:   Re: Formatting floppies?
Message-ID:  <3ED2AD37.7070309@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <200305262359.h4QNxBi41890@windmill.garlic.com>
References:  <200305262359.h4QNxBi41890@windmill.garlic.com>

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Remington L. wrote:
> How exactly is this done? I know it sounds like a stuipid question but I
> have no idea how to do it

man fdformat

Generally you'll want to do:
fdformat /dev/fd0.1440

Once you've formatted it, you'll probably want a DOS filesystem on it:
newfs_msdos -f 1440 /dev/fd0

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com



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