From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 28 21:24:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lvdi.net (Mta.lvdi.net [216.24.138.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1769F37BB6C for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 21:24:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from notme@lvdi.net) Received: from lvdi.net ([216.24.141.197]) by lvdi.net ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 21:11:14 2000 PDT Message-ID: <38E195D0.5CEBD537@lvdi.net> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 21:34:08 -0800 From: Frankie Li X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan O'Connor Cc: Danny , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why doesn't mformat work on FBSD 3.3?? References: <02fc01bf993d$242ac220$0200000a@danco> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=big5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can still use a Microsoft formatted floppy... mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 can't you just format with disklabeling newfs? man disklabel man newfs Frankie Dan O'Connor wrote: > > >- University professors need my assignments on a hard copy and a copy on > floppy > >disks > > Typical academia--keeping right up with the advancement of civilization. > Don't they realize floppies are dead? > > >1) I was wondering if someone could tell me how to format a Microsoft > floppy > >and allow me to copy files to this Microsoft flooppy? > > Well, I'd just use pre-formatted floppy disks... > > Do they even sell unformatted floppies anymore? > > To do the copying, I guess mtools (/usr/ports/emulators/mtools) is probably > your best bet. > > --Dan > > -- > Dan O'Connor > On Matters of Most Grave Concern > http://www.mostgraveconcern.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message