From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 26 17:11:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6D5037B401 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 17:11:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1a-215.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.170.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D86F43F85 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 17:11:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h4R0BZRp001815; Mon, 26 May 2003 20:11:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3ED2AD37.7070309@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 20:11:35 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Remington L." References: <200305262359.h4QNxBi41890@windmill.garlic.com> In-Reply-To: <200305262359.h4QNxBi41890@windmill.garlic.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORg Subject: Re: Formatting floppies? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 00:11:38 -0000 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