basic floppy formatting in OpenBSD

[milanuk]

Ok, I'll admit it: I've gotten spoiled by the (relatively) simple commands for formatting and creating floppy disks in Linux from the command linux. Heck, even w/o some of the nice 'one-command-does-it-all' deals that some distro's have had, it isnt that hard.

Then comes OpenBSD. Formatting a floppy in there kicked my butt big time. It seemed to take 2 or 3 commands w/ a lot of flags and it still didn't work.

I'm planning on putting OpenBSD on my firewall; but for various reasons, I'd like to be able to make a floppy in the OS.

If someone would be gracious enough to _please_ give a step-by-step on how to create a floppy using OpenBSD, and please CC me as well at milanuk@yahoo.com, I'd really appreciate it.

TIA,

Monte

[SolarFlux]

I haven't actually created a floppy in OpenBSD myself... I just asked in #openbsd on EFNet and here it is:

format floppy: fdformat
put a filesystem on a floppy: newfs /dev/fd0c

Hope this helps.

[milanuk]

Hmmm... as anti-social... I mean, newbie-intolerant http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif as the OpenBSD community generally comes across, I never even thought of irc. I did ask on the openbsd-misc mailing list, and that's where I was getting those convoluted commands. I'd swear that I'd tried fdformat; after all, thats what I use on Linux. Btwn the csh, the weird version of vi (maybe thats it; they use vi instead of vim?), I was getting really confused in general really quickly. Got bash installed, but I wanted to download some scripts using the browser on my linux machine, and sneakernet them to the OpenBSD box. Ended up going back to FreeSCO.

Anyway, thanks. I gotta go out and about in the great outdoors this weekend, but I'll check it out sometime as soon as possible.

Thanks again,

Monte