Hi,
Well, i downloaded the gentoo patch. Also downloaded dosfstools-2.9 from the
given site. Gentoo patch is for version 2.10 applicable for kernel 2.6. I,
therefore hunted for dosfstools-2.10 and downloaded the same. Surprisingly
there is also a LFS patch available for this version, which does the same
job as gentoo patch. I downloaded that too.
Upon unpacking, however, i find that both versions of dosfstools open into
two directorie i.e. sbin and usr; the former having executables and the
latter having manpages. There is no 'configure' or 'makefile'. How to tackle
this?
Thanks and Regards,
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:44:49PM +0000, randhir phagura wrote:
Hi,
I have installed lfs-svn-20060416 on my Compaq laptop having P-III
processor.
1. I am not able to copy files on to /dev/fd0. I tried both the following
ways:
cat xvy.abc > /dev/fd0
OR
dd if=xyz.abc of=/dev/fd0
For raw access of the floppy you will have to be in the floppy group.
Otherwise, mount it either as root or put an entry in fstab to allow a
regular user to mount it.
2. Although there are apps in kde and gnome to format floppies, but is
there a way to format them from the commandline?
fdformat (rarely needed) will do a low-level format which then requires
a filesystem format. Use mke2fs if you want an ext2 floppy, or install
the dosfstools package if you want a fat32 floppy (mkdosfs).
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/LOCAL/dosfstools/
Gentoo has a few patches for this package if you want to use them:
http://mir2.ovh.net/gentoo-portage/sys-fs/dosfstools/files/
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