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From: jboggs@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs)
Subject: Re: [ANSWER to question] How to format a floppy for 386bsd
Message-ID: <1993Aug30.212058.15141@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Sender: jboggs@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs)
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
References: <jmonroyCCKEKC.KJD@netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 21:20:58 GMT
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From article <jmonroyCCKEKC.KJD@netcom.com>, by jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr):
 
[disklabeling info, creating a bootable floppy]

Forgive my if I'm wrong, but I think common usage of "format" when people
are talking about floppies is the low level format that needs to be done
before all of this stuff.  

Can one low-level format a floppy in NetBSD-0.9?

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