From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 26 5:38:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from p6.frust.eu.org (d9168.dtk.chello.nl [213.46.9.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93C5F37B479 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 05:38:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from edwin@localhost) by p6.frust.eu.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAQDcBg05981 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 14:38:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from edwin) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 14:38:11 +0100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot mount floppy (Was: No subject) Message-ID: <20001126143811.A5956@p6.frust.eu.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20001126121149.B621@ilex.kicelo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from bwolter@thesadmachine.org on Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 07:10:18AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 07:10:18AM -0600, brian william wolter wrote: > i formatted the disk with fdformat /dev/fd0 and it (appeared to) work... > i'm assuming that it would be formatted as a ufs filesystem. am i > incorrect? man fdformat: Note that fdformat does only perform low-level formatting. In case you wish to create a file system on the medium, see the commands newfs(8) for an ufs file system, or newfs_msdos(8) for an MS-DOS (FAT) file system. Now you can only use it to tar files to it (if I'm not mistaken). Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Fatal Dimensions: mavetju@chello.nl | http://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org/ ------------------+ telnet://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org:4000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message