Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 16:08:53 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Chris Coleman <chris@bb.cc.wa.us> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Formatting FreeBSD Floppies. Message-ID: <34B56A95.15FB7483@whistle.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.94.980108133901.16756A-100000@bb.cc.wa.us>
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Formatting doesn't create the filesystem it just does a low-level format. you then need to do disklabel -r /dev/rfd0 floppy3 newfs /dev/rfd0a THEN you can start writing stuff to the floppy. however that's still a long way from a bootable floppy.. Chris Coleman wrote: > > I am wanting to format a floppy as a FreeBSD partition and make it > bootable. I have looked into 'fdformat' but the floppies that I have > formatted, I cant seem to mount them. It still thinks they are DOS disks > I think. At least it says that they have DOS boot blocks. > > It keeps giving me Incorrect super blocks. This is using 2.2.5-RELEASE > (or near there) > > So how do I make a bootable FreeBSD Floppy disk? Do I have to create a > floppy image and use 'dd'? I hope not. > > Christopher J. Coleman (whyareyou@lookingforme.com) > Computer Support Analyst I (509)-762-6341 > FreeBSD Book Project: http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/
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