Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:09:50 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: trodat@ultratrends.com (Technical Director) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floppy disk - device not configured error Message-ID: <200311182209.hAIM9or05060@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0311181454440.78705-100000@server1.ultratrends.com> from "Technical Director" at Nov 18, 2003 02:58:47 PM
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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. Hmmm. I didn't think so at first, but I had trouble writing to the floppy if I used an unformatted disk. That was way back in v 2.x and 3.x and I started doing it that way and since it worked haven't changed how I do it. ////jerry > > R. >
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