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From: eilon@aristo.tau.ac.il (Eilon Gishri)
Subject: Re: Formatting floppies
Message-ID: <1993Feb25.185740.24521@aristo.tau.ac.il>
Organization: Tel-Aviv University Computation Center
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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 18:57:40 GMT
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Marc Wandschneider (storm@cs.mcgill.ca) wrote:
: How does one format floppies...? We want to transfer files from
: one PC with 386bsd to another, and mwrite seems to be crashing all th etime.
: We tried to disklabel -w -r fd0a floppy5, but we got some errors
: about unconfigured devices, and then newfs didn't work.
: How do we get this going...?
: Toodlepip!
: marc 'em.
: --
: storm@cs.mcgill.ca McGill P.O.W Camp "Oh crap---It's not
: Marc Wandschneider Montreal, CANADA random enough"
: Any opinions expressed are not mine, but those of the Demon Lord
: Yeegeheeegenogohugu who possessed me whilst I munched on Raisin Bran.
try using newfs /dev/rfd0a floppy5.
Eilon.