According to Martin Roberts: While burning my CPU.
>
> >
> > I have never used the fdformat command i have always taken
> > the easy way out
> > and done;
> >
> > /$ mkfs -t msdos /dev/fd0 1440
> >
> > which seems always to have worked for me, so maybe you could
> > tell me what i
> > am doing wrong or how you use the 'fdformat command'.?
> >
> fdformat will just format the disk (low-ish level, I guess). You then
> need to make a file system on it with "mkfs". In doss-land the "format"
> command does both.
Ok, now i know why then, i always buy "formatted" floopys anyway, all i
need to do to convert an old "linux bootdisk" to a dos disk is like i
explaned, so i wasent realy doing anything wrong, just overlooking one fact.
Thanks for pointing it out.
>
> Martin
>
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Regards Richard.
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