Subject: Re: Using floppy disk on i386
To: Shigeki UNO <shigeki@mediawars.ne.jp>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/01/2005 15:57:18
shigeki@mediawars.ne.jp (Shigeki UNO) writes:
> I'd like to use floppy disks on NetBSD/i386 to save small sized
> files such as dot files and text ones. So I followed instructions of
> NetBSD guide but it didn't work.
[...]
> musashi [130] ~ > sudo disklabel -rw /dev/rfd0a floppy3
> disklabel: Invalid signature in mbr record 0
> disklabel: unknown disk type: floppy3

The disktab in /etc/ by default doesn't seem to have floppy3 in it any
more.

I'd just do the disk labeling by hand for now.

Perry