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From: bjork@telebit.com (Steven Bjork)
Subject: How to do this repost Re: [386bsd] Trouble with disklabel & floppies
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In article <lle0omINNrnf@news.bbn.com> blackett@bbn.com (Kent Blackett) writes:
>I'm having trouble using "disklabel" to initialize floppies.  These are
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>Thanks,
>Kent Blackett
>blackett@bbn.com

A repost is called for... 

Article: 8263 of comp.unix.bsd
From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
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Subject: Re: You *can* disklabel floppys
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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

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Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
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