On Sunday 08 July 2001 09:16 pm, you wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Jul 2001, Bill Day dropped these nuggets of information:
> > > > I took what few remaining floppies I had and formatted them with
> > > > linux via kde/kde2/condole jsut to get a basic feel... however, I
> > > > attempted to use (each one no less) in a Windows box to create a
> > > > floppy for a PB restore setup and connot reformat the floppies for
> > > > use with
> > > > DOS/Windows...
>
> [snips]
>
> I've had the same problem. Windoze refuses to read or do anything at
> all to ext2 fs. The only way I have worked around it is to format the
> floppy as FAT under Linux. If I format one to ext2 I just don't
> attempt to use it in windoze. Luckily, I don't have to do the very
> often.
Winsoze only ubderstands three file formats do - fat, fat32 & ntfs. But is
depends on what system you are using. 9x only understands fat/fat32, WinNt 4
fat/ntfs, Win 2k knows all 3. ME do use ever,
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