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From: Andre LeClaire <leclaire@venus.net>
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Subject: Re: floppy preparation
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>
> 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.
> 
Using 1st floppy drive:
fdformat /dev/rfd0
disklabel -w -r /dev/rfd0 fd1440
disklabel -r /dev/rfd0
newfs -t 2 -u 18 /dev/rfd0

The above excerpted from Greg Lehey's excellent book "The Complete 
FreeBSD", pages 184-186.

Andre