On Sunday 15 January 2006 23:44, Andrea Campi wrote:
> Just a wild guess: have you tried using fdisk? Pretending it is a floppy
> is probably working because real floppies don't have a partition table,
> whereas all kind of HDs in the DOS world have them.
>
> Try creating just a single slice to cov
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 02:14:05PM +0100, Andrea Campi wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 12:49:51PM +, Brian Candler wrote:
> > Furthermore, why do I still have to pretend that the device is a 1440K
> > floppy disk? If I remove -f 1440 I get:
> >
> > # newfs_msdos -h 64 -u 32 -s 256000 -a 125 -
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 12:49:51PM +, Brian Candler wrote:
> Furthermore, why do I still have to pretend that the device is a 1440K
> floppy disk? If I remove -f 1440 I get:
>
> # newfs_msdos -h 64 -u 32 -s 256000 -a 125 -F 16 -b 4096 -c 8 /dev/md0
> newfs_msdos: Cannot get number of sectors,
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 12:34:46PM +, Brian Candler wrote:
> I am trying to prepare an MS-DOS disk image file (for later dd to a USB
> device) but am having difficulties getting newfs_msdos to work in this way.
> This is under 5.4-RELEASE.
P.S. it seems that the total disk size given by -s is
I am trying to prepare an MS-DOS disk image file (for later dd to a USB
device) but am having difficulties getting newfs_msdos to work in this way.
This is under 5.4-RELEASE.
Firstly, newfs_msdos seems to insist on a block-special device; it won't
talk to a disk file. OK, no problem, I'll fake it
