Hi Richard,
Richard P. Koett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm coming in rather late on this discussion - just curious about the
formatting step? Presumably you would do something like:
$ fdformat fd0
Yes exactly, but the low level formatting was not the question.
But thanks for answering
Hello, I haven't had any problems with fdformat and easy to use.
Best regards,
rogern
John 3:16
From: Michael Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: SETTLED - Re: proper way to format/use floppies (i386)
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 01:57:58 +0200
Hi Richard,
Richard P. Koett
Michael Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
Hi Jonathan,
I finally found a satisfactory answer from the sources. See below.
Jonathan Schleifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
c is always the whole disk and because the
disk has no disklabel and no partition table, it's also a.
Well, the floppy _does_ have a disklabel. By default, it only has
Hi JCR,
J.C. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As far as I can tell, you basically asked for the right or preferred
way of putting a filesystem onto a floppy
Yes, that is exactly my question.
The best answer I know is fdformat. It works. It's simple and it's the
most commonly accepted way to
Michael Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, as I wrote above, I know about the fdformat program,
and low level formatting is actually not what my question
was aimed at -- it was aimed at the disklabel / filesystem
level of formatting. But this may have got lost in my overly
long email. :-)
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
Hello!
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 07:57:55AM -0700, Spruell, Darren-Perot wrote:
[...]
Is there any reason to use FFS on a floppy? Won't FAT (-12, or whatever)
work fine? Could you just mformat it and be along?
Of course there is. Just take a look at the boot floppies, for example.
Or think of the
Spruell, Darren-Perot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there any reason to use FFS on a floppy? Won't FAT (-12, or whatever)
work fine? Could you just mformat it and be along?
Yes, in fact there are:
1. As a matter of principle.
2. I need the FFS file permissions and ownerships on the floppy.
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
Floppies usually don't have a partition table nor a disk label, so just
newfs fd0c and you should be fine.
--
Jonathan
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 10:58, Michael Adam wrote:
Hi,
I could not tell from the documentation which is the proper way
to setup and use floppy disks on the i386 architecture, i.e. which
is the right partition to use.
I am talking about the standard 3.5 inch 1.44 MB floppy disks.
There are
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:58:47 +0200, Michael Adam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I could not tell from the documentation which is the proper way
to setup and use floppy disks on the i386 architecture, i.e. which
is the right partition to use.
I am talking about the standard 3.5 inch 1.44 MB floppy
Hi Steve,
On 8/23/05, STeve Andre' wrote:
I would avoid all this and use the 'mtools' package instead. It deals
with msdos fat-12(?) floppies, and is tons easier to use. Then you
can hand those floppies to others and they can read/write them.
Using fat on the floppy is not an option. I
Hi,
On 8/23/05, J.C. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:58:47 +0200, Michael Adam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
First of all, a floppy needs to be low level formatted, which can be
achieved by the fdformat program. (Ususally, this is not necessary
nowadays, since
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