On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:13:08 +0200, Michael Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Jonathan Schleifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Michael Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > which is the right or preferred way to do so (since there are, as >> > I pointed out several possible ways). >> >> I already answered that before: >> Jonathan Schleifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Floppies usually don't have a partition table nor a disk label, so >> > just newfs fd0c and you should be fine. > >Well yes, it is working. But still: The floppy does have a disklabel >which does only have partition "c" by default. And it seems strange >to me, that I should create a filesystem on a partition "c". And even >stranger, this file system can afterwards be accessed through partition >"a" which does not even show up in the disklabel. > >What puzzles me even more is the fact, that in the boot "Absolute OpenBSD" >by Michael W. Lucas, it is said on page 310, that "FFS file systems need >a valid partition table on every disk" and then the author desribes the >following steps: > # disklabel -w /dev/rfd0c floppy > # newfs /dev/rfd0c > >which yields a disklabel with overlapping partitions, and "disklabel -E fd0" >tells me that the disklabel has an error an offers me to disable one partition >or the other... > >These are the reasons why I was not completely content with your short >an simple answer. (I do favor simple solutions, of course!) > >> You also heart this from others. So it's not that your main question got >> lost ;). > >Not on your side anyway... ;-) > >Cheers, Michael Hi Michael, As far as I can tell, you basically asked for the "right or preferred way" "of putting a filesystem onto a floppy" The best answer I know is fdformat. It works. It's simple and it's the most commonly accepted way to do what you asked. If by chance you are asking a different question, then unfortunately no one on the list is actually understanding what you really want. JCR
