On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Robert Citek wrote:
>
> On Monday, Apr 25, 2005, at 21:54 US/Central, Robert Citek wrote:
> > On Monday, Apr 25, 2005, at 18:46 US/Central, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> >> Oh well, .. what *should* be the proper way to initialize the disk as
> >> FAT32?
> >
> > # mkfs.vfat -C uba1.img 8001 # the number of blocks needs to be
> > specified
> > # dd if=uba1.img of=/dev/uba1
>
> Same thing goes for FAT32 except that you need to explicitly tell mkfs
> to use FAT32:
>
> # mkfs.vfat -F 32 -C uba1.img 8001
> # dd if=uba1.img of=/dev/uba1
>
Thanks for testing!!! Unfortunately that would not work with an 80GB USB
dive (no room to build an image).
Back to W98 boot floppy <sigh>. Thanks for confirming that mkfs.vfat is
broken, however, .. at least it's not somehing I'm doing wrong.
Lee
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Network/Internet Consultants www.omnitec.net
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