Greetings: This thread very interesting to me so would like to add
something FWIW:
For very quick re-formatting floppies I've been using mformat a:,
thence mdir a:, thence dosfsck -tvr /dev/fd0 - for a scan test..
I tried superformat /dev/fd0 hd - on some of those disks and got a
failure notice.. So can presume that superformat is more thorough
than mformat, at least to me..
Trying superformat then dosfsck -tvr confirms that superformat does,
in fact, put a dos fs on the disk.. Interesting.... We learn
something new every day, eh? Just a thought..
Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 8.0 (2.4.13)
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On 12-03, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At , Jerry James Haumberger wrote:
> >Hi, folks --
> >
> >After installing BasicLinux, I discovered that I needed to add
> >fdformat to format ext2 on high density 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disks.
> >
> >Unfortunately, I'm not quite sure where to look for this on the
> >Slackware 3.5 site (which is what I need for BasicLinux 1.7).
> >
> >I would greatly appreciate anyone pointing me to the ftp address where
> >I can download the tar file for fdformat and use pkg to install it.
>
> Go to any Slackware 3.5 mirror site (find one via Google if you need to)
> and look at the Manifest.gz file in the Slakware [sic] directory. You'll
> find all the packages listed with their contents. In your case, you
> probably want one of these:
>
> fdformat, contained in ./a11/util.tgz
> superformat, contained in ./a1/aaa_base.tgz
>
> In modern distros, I believe that superformat has superseded fdformat for
> formatting both regular and high-density floppies.
>
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