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From: paulc@iris.mincom.oz.au (Paul Cameron)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Emergency Boot Disk
Message-ID: <4847@iris.mincom.oz.au>
Date: 1 Mar 93 03:17:41 GMT
Organization: Mincom, Brisbane, Australia
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I'm trying to create an Emergency Boot disk on a 3.5" floppy disk.
There's no Format command, so I can't format the disk. Disklabel
won't work on DOS formatted disks. NEWFS won't work because Disklabel
won't work, and MOUNT certainly won't work.

Can anyone help me out here ?