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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!bnrgate!bnr.co.uk!uknet!warwick!qmw-dcs!qmw!demon!centrix.demon.co.uk!damian Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions From: damian@centrix.demon.co.uk (damian) Subject: Re: file system on floppy References: <C6xDvu.65y@unix.portal.com> Organization: Centrix Keywords: 3868bsd, newfs, file system Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 20:20:39 +0000 Message-ID: <9305172255.ab27275@post.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Lines: 26 In article <C6xDvu.65y@unix.portal.com> chris@shell.portal.com (Chris - Ding) writes: >Hi, > >I am trying to create a file system on a 1.44M floppy. >What I did is: > >newfs -T in3 /dev/rfd0b /mnt > >But nothing happend. 'in3' is defined in /etc/disktab. > >should I first format the floppy ? I want to do so, but >can find any format command. Yes! And there isn't a format command under 386BSD that I know of. Your best bet is to format the disk under DOS (DOS just shoves some extra stuff on top of the 'unix' format, which will just get overwritten). You don't have DOS? Oh dear we have a problem. Damian -- +----------------------------+------------------------------------------------+ | Damian Ivereigh | If you can't suss out what this is replying to | | damian@centrix.demon.co.uk | get a threaded news reader, like trn. :-) | | Twickenham, U.K. | This is the best way to cut wasted traffic | +----------------------------+------------------------------------------------+