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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!telebit!bjork From: bjork@telebit.com (Steven Bjork) Subject: You *can* disklabel floppys Message-ID: <1992Nov4.053452.12744@telebit.com> Originator: bjork@napa Keywords: ignore error message Sender: news@telebit.com Nntp-Posting-Host: napa.telebit.com Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 05:34:52 GMT Lines: 15 You *can* disklabel floppys. I take the 3" and cd /usr/mdec. Then, use: disklabel -w -r fd0a floppy3 yourlabelmsg fdboot bootfd ....and ignore the error message :). After this is done, you should be able to make a file system: newfs fd0a floppy3 ....and fsck for luck, then mount it and cp away. --Steven the skeptic