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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: A: Drive?!?!? Date: 29 Oct 1996 20:44:36 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <555qbk$621@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3268183E.5B5E@freenet.mb.ca> <3269269A.1D2@icanect.net> <54dhc5$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> <553dn0$72f@newshost.lanl.gov> <87budmyuwb.fsf@bedrock.gaffaneys.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Zach Heilig <zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com> wrote: > Charlie> Am I correct that one would first format the diskette > Charlie> with fdformat? > > Right, but fdformat is only a low-level formatter, it does not put > a filesystem (either dos or freebsd) on the disk. Addendum for high-level formatting MS-DOS file system floppies: Starting in November, 1995, FreeBSD 2.2-current ships with a `mkdosfs' utility. (Since this was a new feature, it didn't make it into the 2.1.5 system where only bugfixes have been allowed.) Prior to this, you were required to format your floppy on DOS, or with `mformat' from the mtools. Since the latter doesn't put a valid (DOS) bootstrap on the floppy, they are not mountable with the msdosfs however. (mkdosfs-generated floppies are; they have a do-nothing bootstrap.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)