On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Jerry McAllister wrote: > Is the floppy formatted? Used fdformat for that or do it > on a MS machine. > > Also, write to /dev/fd0c or /dev/rfd0c. > > Here is just what I do and have done many times. > > First format two floppies for 1.4 meg using fdformat > -> 'fdformat -f 1440' is enough. It will prompt for the rest > then > -> 'dd if=boot-image of=/dev/rfd0c' for boot floppy > (change floppy :) > and > -> 'dd if=mfs-image of=/dev/rfd0c' for mfs floppy
Hello, Maybe I'm wrong but isin't dd a raw write to the device when used in this way? Hence a pre-formatting is not required? Preformatting may help I'm not to sure, I know that I have never had to do it for a boot floppy creation. R. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
