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Date:      Sat, 3 Feb 1996 19:38:01 +0100 (MET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   FAT creation code ?
Message-ID:  <199602031838.TAA17717@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>

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Is anyone aware of C source that allows you to create an MSDOS (FAT)
partition on a disk ? mformat prevents you to work on C: and in any 
case only works for 12-bit fat entries and small clusters.
 
Reason why I am asking, if anyone is interested: we'd like to be
able to clean up the machines in our lab from either FreeBSD or a
boot eprom.  We are going to use a modified FreeBSD boot eprom,
with entries which allow to choose which boot method to use. If
the FAT-creation code is sufficiently small, then it can fit on
the eprom as well, together with the code to write a boot sector
on the disk.

	Luigi
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Luigi Rizzo                     Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
email: luigi@iet.unipi.it       Universita' di Pisa
tel: +39-50-568533              via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy)
fax: +39-50-568522              http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/
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