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From: jingsong@jalapeno.cs.ucdavis.edu (Jingsong Cai)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386bsd] formatting a floppy disk
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Date: 3 Nov 92 21:12:06 GMT
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I had similar problem, it always complained about disk not configured,
what is wrong with "disklabel -w -r /dev/fd0a floppy" to format a5.25
floppy ? THanks.