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Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:58:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        tcooper1@telusplanet.net (Terry Cooper)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: floppy device busy
Message-ID:  <200210211458.g9LEwxh13167@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <001801c2791a$df4273e0$fb69cecd@donatev49iknkl> from "Terry Cooper" at Oct 21, 2002 08:59:43 AM

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> 
> I was trying to create a bootable floppy from using a script I found from
> http://www.svbug.com/developer/documentation/handbook/handbook139.html
> 
> and well it failed. Big newbie surprize. grrrrrrrrrr. Well now I get this
> error after I modified the script.
> 
> fdformat: /dev/fd0: Device busy
> Bad floppy, please use a newone

Were you CDed to something on the floppy or did you have some file
there open?   

////jerry

> 
> I rebooted my computer to fix it but there must be a simple command to fix
> this.
> 
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