newfs_msdos onto an image file

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sunday 15 January 2006 23:44, Andrea Campi wrote:
> Just a wild guess: have you tried using fdisk? Pretending it is a floppy
> is probably working because real floppies don't have a partition table,
> whereas all kind of HDs in the DOS world have them.
>
> Try creating just a single slice to cover all disk, and you should be
> ready to newfs it.

I tried that and it didn't work.

Seems that md is missing some magic newfs_msdos needs..?

ie I did fdisk -BI md0 then fdisk -i md0 and changed the type to 6 but still 
couldn't newfs_msdos it :(

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