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On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Joseph Wronkowski wrote:

> I have got the dd to work but I am having trouble formating a disk.  these
> are the steps i am using:
> fdformat -lv /dev/fd0 floppy

See /etc/disktab, instructions for formatting floppies are in there.  What
is -l, anyway? It's not on the man page.

This will make a UNIX disk, not a MSDOS disk.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major