Epson Equity 386SX PLUS, User Manual

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3. If necessary, remove the Startup diskette from drive A.
Insert the diskette you want to format in drive A and press
Enter
to start formatting.
4. When the diskette is formatted, you see this message:
Format complete
Volume label (11 characters, ENTER
for none)?
5. At the
Volume label
prompt, you can enter a name
to describe the information the diskette will contain. The
name (the volume label) will appear whenever you view the
contents of a directory on the diskette using the DIR
command. The volume label can be up to 11 characters
long and can consist of any characters or numbers, except
for blank spaces and the following symbols:
After you name the diskette, press
Enter.
(If you do not
want to name the diskette, simply press
Enter.)
Then you
see messages such as the following:
1457664 bytes total disk space
1457664 bytes available on disk
512 bytes in each allocation unit
2847 allocation units available on disk
Volume Serial Number is 344A-15DB
Format another (Y/N)?
6. To format another diskette, press Y and
Enter.
To return to
the MS-DOS command prompt, press
N
and
Enter.
Using MS-DOS with Your Equity 386SX
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