David Brownlee wrote:
> 
> 	Just on the offchance - do you get the same problem if you build
> 	the vnode directly on the msdos partition (rather than copying
> 	from the ffs partition)?

Actually, I get a new error on the way:

quartz# pwd    
/dos/tmp
quartz# dd if=/dev/zero of=new count=2880
2880+0 records in
2880+0 records out
1474560 bytes transferred in 1 secs (1474560 bytes/sec)
quartz# vnconfig -c -t floppy3 -v /dev/vnd0d new
/dev/vnd0d: 1474560 bytes on new using geometry 512/18/2/80
quartz# disklabel -w -r /dev/rvnd0d floppy3
quartz# newfs /dev/rvnd0a floppy3
/dev/rvnd0a:    2880 sectors in 80 cylinders of 2 tracks, 18 sectors
        1.4MB in 5 cyl groups (16 c/g, 0.28MB/g, 128 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
 32, 632, 1184, 1784, 2336,
cg 0: bad magic number
cg 0: bad magic number
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
which didn't happen on the ffs partition. Also maybe someone could
check, should I be using rvnd0d (i386) or vnd0a in the disklabel
command?

Cheers,

 Patrick