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From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
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Subject: floppy preparation
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I searched the mail archives, the FAQ and the handbook and couldn't find 
anything on this -- I know I should know the answer, but I don't.

How do I make a 1.44 MB floppy unix-usable?  I've been messing around with 
newfs, fdformat and disklabel for a half-hour and I can't get it right.



 Ben

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