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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:4757 comp.os.386bsd.misc:810 comp.os.386bsd.development:1164 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Subject: Re: [ANSWER to question] How to format a floppy for 386bsd Message-ID: <1993Aug31.050228.22034@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT References: <jmonroyCCKEKC.KJD@netcom.com> <1993Aug30.212058.15141@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 05:02:28 GMT Lines: 29 In article <1993Aug30.212058.15141@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> jboggs@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs) writes: >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? Yes. You have to have a patch that NetBSD has not integrated, even though it was posted on 05 Nov 1992. It was one of the (400 or so) patches I didn't get to in the original (non-beta) patchkit before I handed it off -- apparently it got lost in the noise. From: Yoshihiro Masuda Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: [386bsd] physicaly formatter for floppy disk Message-ID: <1992Nov5.073156.29595@rokugo.co.jp> Grab it from a news archive. Terry Lambert terry@icarus.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.