On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Glynn Clements wrote:
>
> Tony Nugent wrote:
>
> > > > Can you help me how to format a floppy for 1.7MB.
> > >
> > > fdformat /dev/fd0u1760
> > >
> > > Do `echo /dev/fd0*' for a list of the various capacities.
> >
> > Perhaps someone can confirm this, but I was under the impression that
> > you need the fdutils package in order to handle things like this (eg,
> > superformat). The man page for fdformat (which comes from the
> > util-linux package) can only handle the standard formatting
> > densities...
>
> That isn't my experience; fdformat seems to handle the non-standard
> formats fine.
why don't you just
mkfs.ext2 /dev/fd0
mount /dev/fd0 /something
?
it works fine for me. You may also add -c to mkfs so it would check for
bad blocks.
Nicholas
