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From: asher@lemur.afl.hlo.dec.com (David H Asher  HLO2-3/C11  DTN 225-6424  Tel 508-568-6424)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: [386bsd] formatting a floppy disk
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Date: 21 Oct 92 14:49:25 GMT
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I've seen a couple messages go by about this, and dutifully saved
them.  BUT, when I try to set the disklabel with:

disklabel -w -r fd0 floppy


(it's a 3.5 in 1.44MB floppy)  I get a "device not configured" error
from disklabel.


Any ideas??


Thanks,

David.