On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 10:53:05AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My floppy shows (on Linux) as having a bad FAT partition,
> and therefore, Linux will not read from the floppy .
>
This may not be true. By all probabilities, you have tried to
mount a MSDOS floppy as ext2 or similar problem ...
> What commands and what flags do I use on Linux to format the
> floppy (into whichever fs type I wish , say, FAT or ext2 ) ?
>
In Linux formatting a floppy is a two staged process:
a) Do a low level format ... ususally fdformat or superformat
see man for these, one of them will surely be there. The
syntax is something like:
fdformat /dev/fd0H1440
superformat /dev/fd0
b) Place the file system on it:
mkfs -V -c -t msdos OR | V = verbose c = check
mkfs -V -c -t ext2 | t = type of fs
Bish
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