Subject: Re: formatting usb floppy?
To: Bryan P <u5@terran.org>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: current-users
Date: 01/14/2003 10:51:45
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 03:49:01PM -0800, Bryan P wrote:
> Me three.  What I've been doing in the mean-time is using dd to copy out a
> disk image of a freshly formatted disk.

Uh, that won't help - the dd relies on the disk already being formatted.

It will copy a blank filesystem image there, but newfs_msdos will
make one of those (at least for you, where you can write).

--
Dan.