On Friday 26 January 2001 00:53, you wrote:
> fdformat /dev/fd0h1440 && mkfs -t type /dev/fd0
It is probably worth pointing out the diff between fd0H1440 and fd0h1440.
AFAIK, the 'H' implies a 1.44 meg format on a 5.25" floppy, rather than a
3.5" floppy. Most people don't have 5.25" drives anymore.
> where type is ext2 or vfat. There really is very little reason to put ext2
> on a floppy because dd or some other will do it for you if necessary, and
dd implies that what is on the floppy is 'raw' with no filesystem assumed.
Heck, if you want to, you can tar directly to /dev/fd0 if you want to - a
short, flattened, concentric tape drive. (wow - what a concept!) :)
If you have mtools, mformat is quite nice. But of course, all that does is
the 'high-level' format - you still need to lowlevel format the disk with
fdformat.
> Civileme
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