Michael Devore wrote:
At 07:47 AM 2/24/2006 -0500, Mark Bailey wrote:
Hi Michael:
Thanks again for your help. I have now found a link on
how to format a stick as either a superfloppy or
with an MBR. It does this from Linux, but I begin
to understand what is happening. Linux devices I get...
:-)
http://www.marlow.dk/site.php/tech/usbkeys
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* To format the drive in superfloppy format, you simply do:
mkdosfs -I /dev/sda
* Formatting in harddisk requires more steps, if it's not allready
formatted that way:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
to erase the start of the USB Key. After that you can do a "fdisk
/dev/sda" and create a new FAT partition (FAT16 is suitable). To install
a MBR and format the key afterwards, do
install-mbr /dev/sda --force
mkdosfs -I /dev/sda1
* Now the USB key is ready to be loaded with systemfiles. If you
use FreeDOS, MS-DOS, IBM-DOS or DR-/Novell-DOS is up to you.
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Now, you can probably do the latter with fdisk /mbr, probably
after wiping out the existing boot sector...but a Linux LiveCD
should make it quite easy to go back and forth.
Maybe I can get to play with this this weekend!
Mark
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