Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:23:08 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Andrea Campi <andrea+freebsd_stable@webcom.it>, Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> Subject: Re: newfs_msdos onto an image file Message-ID: <200601161123.15803.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20060115131405.GC1181@webcom.it> References: <20060115123445.GA14271@uk.tiscali.com> <20060115124950.GA23753@uk.tiscali.com> <20060115131405.GC1181@webcom.it>
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--nextPart1250926.DCJHqFi5Zp Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 15 January 2006 23:44, Andrea Campi wrote: > Just a wild guess: have you tried using fdisk? Pretending it is a floppy > is probably working because real floppies don't have a partition table, > whereas all kind of HDs in the DOS world have them. > > Try creating just a single slice to cover all disk, and you should be > ready to newfs it. I tried that and it didn't work. Seems that md is missing some magic newfs_msdos needs..? ie I did fdisk -BI md0 then fdisk -i md0 and changed the type to 6 but stil= l=20 couldn't newfs_msdos it :( =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1250926.DCJHqFi5Zp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDyu575ZPcIHs/zowRApY3AJwKfTFQ+T4RZfxxG1qv71Ino1JzpwCfRUVW yKVExXDev9jLEOi3t5Jdkgg= =I13k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1250926.DCJHqFi5Zp--
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