From 7bcddb5f0e892c9cd0dbadec452110bff71a1975 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 07:12:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] More informative command sequence for creating UFS floppies. Submitted by: harold barker --- release/sysinstall/help/install.hlp | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/release/sysinstall/help/install.hlp b/release/sysinstall/help/install.hlp index 1badeae832a9..bbb666158d98 100644 --- a/release/sysinstall/help/install.hlp +++ b/release/sysinstall/help/install.hlp @@ -180,12 +180,14 @@ which is why I'm taking such special care to mention it here! If you're creating the floppies from another FreeBSD machine, a format is still not a bad idea though you don't need to put a DOS filesystem on each floppy. You can use the `disklabel' and `newfs' commands to -put a UFS filesystem on them instead, like so: +put a UFS filesystem on a floppy, as the following sequence of commands +(for a 3.5" 1.44MB floppy disk) illustrates: - disklabel -w -r fd0 floppy3 (use floppy5 for 1.2MB disks) - newfs /dev/rfd0 + fdformat -f 1440 fd0.1440 + disklabel -w -r fd0.1440 floppy3 + newfs -t 2 -u 18 -l 1 -i 65536 /dev/rfd0 -Then you can mount and write to them like any other file system. +(Use "fd0.1200" and "floppy5" for 5.25" 1.2MB disks). After you've formatted the floppies for DOS or UFS, you'll need to copy the files onto them. The distribution files are split into