From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 12 15:34: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.epita.fr (hermes.epita.fr [194.98.116.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57FFE1587D for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:33:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@epita.fr) Received: from guiscar (guiscar.epita.fr [10.42.1.49]) by hermes.epita.fr id AAA19642 Fri, 13 Aug 1999 00:00:24 GMT From: free bsd Message-Id: <199908130000.AAA19642@hermes.epita.fr> Subject: Re: need some tools To: oryx@chaos.ao.net Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 00:31:19 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "oryx@chaos.ao.net" at Aug 12, 1999 11:46:26 AM Organization: Epita (French Computer Science school) Operating-System: definitely UNIX Postal-Address: 14 rue voltaire, 94270 kremlin bicêtre Function: Computer Science Student X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL0pre8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG when i use newfs_msdos, it doesn't work: newfs_msdos: Cannot determine size: (-f size) but with -f the more we can do it a partition of 1440 KB, but i would like to do bigger. thanks. According to oryx@chaos.ao.net: > > > Greetings, > > You can create a fat16 partition using FreeBSD's fdisk command > (man fdisk). After you have created the fat16 partition, you can format > it's file system with the newfs_msdos command (man newfs_msdos). > > There are a few types of FAT16 partitions. > > If the FAT16 partition is <=32MB, the partition type is 4. > If the FAT16 partition is above 32MB, the partition type is 6. > > After you format the partition, you can mount it with mount -t msdos (man > mount). > > Good luck! > > In the future, please send questions of this nature to > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Thanks, > Oryx > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message