Barry Schwartz posted on Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:36:48 -0600 as excerpted: > Depending on what the DOS fs stuff is for, sys-fs/ntfs3g might be a > better option, anyway, though I have a vfat partition from before I > discovered ntfs3g, and would keep dosfstools (and the kernel support) > and/or mtools around anyway, for working with those very occasional > floppies.
As I said, I've been formatting those ext2. Now that ext4 is available without journaling, perhaps I'll eventually switch to it. The only other thing I do with floppies is copy premade FreeDOS images to them, for stuff like flashing BIOSs. My board is now EOLed and no more flashes for it, but I had a clean 1.44 floppy FreeDOS OEM image that I'd copy, loopback-mount the copy, copy in the new flash executable and BIOS bin image, umount, dd the image direct to /dev/fd0, verify it, then boot to the floppy and flash the BIOS. Unfortunately, the last one I did killed the BIOS as I had a stick of bad memory that caused it to write corruption, so I had to order from Cali a new BIOS chip flashed to the last update, but until then, the system worked well. But other than that, the only floppies I've done for years have been ext2. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
