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- From: yeoy@a.cs.okstate.edu (YEO YEK CHONG)
- Subject: Formating 5.25" disk
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.182503.27353@a.cs.okstate.edu>
- Organization: Oklahoma State University, Computer Science, Stillwater
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 18:25:03 GMT
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- Hello,
- There were a few postings that outlined the procedure to disklabel
- 3.5" disk as:
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- 1) cd /usr/mdec
- 2) disklabel -w -r fd0a floppy3 LABEL fdboot bootfd
- 3) newfs fd0a floppy3
- 4) mount /dev/fd0a /mnt
-
- This procedure works for my 3.5" floppy and for 3.5" floppy as
- drive b. I used fd1a instead of fd0a and they work fine.
-
- Question 1:
- How do I format a 5.25" floppy? I have tried using "floppy"
- instead of "floppy3".
-
- Question 2:
- What are fdboot and bootfd? man specify that they are packid and
- priboot sector respectively, but specifically I meant to ask if "fd" means
- floppy disk. And for that matter, what are asboot, bootas, wdboot, and
- bootwd.
-
- Question 3:
- Are there more then 1 disktype other then "floppy3"? Where can
- I get a list of disktype? Or How can I define or creat new disktype?
-
- Many many thanks
- Yeo...
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