On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 09:39:29PM -0500, Mike Sienicki wrote:
> (1). How can I turn a 100MB Zip disk (MS-DOS format) into a FFS formatted disk
> under NetBSD V1.4.1 running on the i386 port?
The same way you do it with harddiscs:

1. disklabel them:
disklabel [disk] > tmpfile
(edit tmpfile to fit your needs)
disklabel -R -r [disk] tmpfile

2. create the filesystem 
newfs [device]

> (2). I am unable to mount a Zip disk with an FFS format (made using the
> Atari NetBSD V1.4.1 port) on my PC running NetBSD V1.4.1 for some reason. I
> am however
> able to mount an MS-DOS Zip disk on either computer after using mbrlabel.
It's a [byte-]sex problem: 68ks are big-endian and i386s little-endian.

You can set the option FFS_EI in your kernel to read FFS filesystems of
different endianess. See options(4).
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