I checked the RH 6.2 system that I have here and itcan format 1.722 mb floppies. By default my system did not have a block device that could handle this size floppy. However, you should be able to create a block device to use for formatting a 1.722 floppy.
The information you need is in the kernel source Documentation folder /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt I just tried it on a system I have, and it works. Here is what I did on my RH 6.2 system. mknod /dev/fd0H1722 b 2 60 I did the following to match the permissions of the other floppy block devices that I had. chmod 0660 /dev/fd0H1722 chown root:floppy /dev/fd0H1722 JDF >On Friday 12 April 2002 17:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > People, > > Time for another newbie type question. I want to write tomsrtbt, or muLinux > to a floppy. They both use 1.722MB floppies. I thought fdformat could do > 1.722, but the man page says no. I am using Red Hat 6.2, but updated. > > TIA, > Bob Sparks > Never attribute to malice, that which can be explained by stupidity. > Never attribute to stupidity, that which can be explained by lack of > information. ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
