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From: "Patrick C. Walther" <pwalther>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: What filesystem on floppies ??
Date: 28 Sep 1995 07:51:13 GMT
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Hey,
Ihave installed FreeBSD on my portable 486. As I don't have any access to the
Net from that computer, I have to install everything with floppies. I can get
all the stuff from the Internet on a sparcstation.
Now what is the best way to write and read the things to/from the floppies?
Do I really need to format them for MS-DOS or is there a better way?
Thanks
Pat