Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:58:47 -0700 (MST) From: Technical Director <trodat@ultratrends.com> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floppy disk - device not configured error Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0311181454440.78705-100000@server1.ultratrends.com> In-Reply-To: <200311182136.hAILaGs04901@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Jerry McAllister wrote: > Is the floppy formatted? Used fdformat for that or do it > on a MS machine. > > Also, write to /dev/fd0c or /dev/rfd0c. > > Here is just what I do and have done many times. > > First format two floppies for 1.4 meg using fdformat > -> 'fdformat -f 1440' is enough. It will prompt for the rest > then > -> 'dd if=boot-image of=/dev/rfd0c' for boot floppy > (change floppy :) > and > -> 'dd if=mfs-image of=/dev/rfd0c' for mfs floppy Hello, Maybe I'm wrong but isin't dd a raw write to the device when used in this way? Hence a pre-formatting is not required? Preformatting may help I'm not to sure, I know that I have never had to do it for a boot floppy creation. R.
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