From: Michael Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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...

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?

DS

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