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- From: serini@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Piero Serini)
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] Disklabeling a DOS formatted floppy
- References: <RUSSO.92Nov22145945@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu>
- Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 22:40:42 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.224042.1089@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>
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- russo@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Thomas Russo) writes:
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- >No, I don't want to know how to low-level format a floppy -- I know I
- >need to do that from DOS.
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- >What I WANT to do now is to make a filesystem on a floppy (either 5.25
- >or 3.5in), just like the dist.fs and fixit.fs floppies have
- >filesystems, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to do it.
-
- # newfs device ploppy-type
-
- example: in drive a: we have a 5inch 1.2 Mb disk, then:
- newfs /dev/fd0a floppy5
-
- >--
- >Thomas Russo russo@nile.chem.columbia.edu
- >Department of Chemistry and Center for Biomolecular Simulation
- >Columbia University
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