On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 04:14:34PM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > > > I realise that. What I want to do is create a DOS filesystem on a floppy, > > > not ext2, so I can use it in my sneakernet. I suppose I could format > > > once on DOS/Windows, then use dd to create an initialised filesystem > > > image, which I could dd onto new floppies, but that seems like cheating > > > somehow. > > > > Superformat wouldn't help you with that anyway. Just use the programs in > > the mtools package. > > Thank you. That works fine. Now I just need to figure out why I can't eject > the > disk... > > $ eject -f /dev/fd0 > eject: unable to find or open device for: `/dev/fd0' > > This is with kernel 2.2.17-pre6, compiled from the debian package. I did get > the same error after superformat caused an oops, but this is a clean boot this > morning, and I haven't tried superformat today. >
Try simply "eject fd0". -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
