On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Brian Rose wrote:

> Florian Stoehr wrote:
>
>> Hi, perhaps try http://home.freeuk.net/foxy2k/disk/disk9.htm
>
> Cool, FAT32 appears to be 12 (0x0B).
>
>>
>> Or boot any FAT32 machine with the Live CD, "dd" the first track to a
>> file and hexedit it.
>>
>
> I tried newfs on the newly created partition, but apparantly newfs only works 
> on 4.2BSD filesystems.
>
> How do I format a FAT32 partition in NetBSD.
>
> P.S. - Is it me or should this be a simple endeavor?
>
>
>
> -- 
>
> Brian
>

See "man newfs_msdos", your option is "-F 32". Formatting is not necessary 
for harddisks (actually the "formatting" performed by DOS/Win is just a 
verify). You only need to format floppies; use "fdformat" for that task.

-Florian