Re: which format label

[Jeffrey Ebert <ebert@sonicsinc.com>]

Harold Hartley wrote:
> 
> I sent a message ealier and felt I didn't explain myself enough...
> 
> I have fdformat some floppies and put the files for boot floppies on them..
> they also have a SunOS label to them....
> As I read my man on my sparc 1+ about fdformat, I find it telling me about
> fdformat -d for a MS-dos label...
> 
> should I have my floppies with a MS-dos label for my bootfloppy to install
> linux on a unix OS thats on there now...
> 
> Harold

I don't think it matters since you are going to use rawrite or dd to put
the boot floppy images onto the floppy. I think the only reason for
formatting them before hand is to look for bad sectors. If you have any
bad sectors, then you can't use the disk. There is no way to mark the
bad sectors and avoid them when you are dd'ing a complete disk image.

Does this make sense?

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