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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!olivea!decwrl!pacbell.com!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!cs.widener.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!jvnc.net!nuscc!ntuix!eoahmad From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: You *can* disklabel floppys Message-ID: <1992Nov4.103517.1184@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Date: 4 Nov 92 10:35:17 GMT References: <1992Nov4.053452.12744@telebit.com> Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore Lines: 33 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] Steven Bjork (bjork@telebit.com) wrote: : : 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: Thank you so much. Those stupid messages confuses me so much. I've tried so many combinations without success. Fortunately the messages did not stop its work. I just want to verify that it actually work as stated and I followed the instructions here carefully, to the exact letter, even to the point of cd /usr/mdec and newfs fd1a floppy3 which I normally do not do, just depend on defaults. My 3in floppy is on drive b: : : newfs fd0a floppy3 : : ...and fsck for luck, then mount it and cp away. : : --Steven the skeptic -- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263. Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet