-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 09 May 2002 8:00 pm, Brian Koppe wrote:
> Hey everyone, how do you format a floppy in Linux? :-[ - From the command line, it's not trivial. If you're not using Gnome or KDE, it's a two-stage process (wipe everything then make a new MS-DOS file system on the floppy): (log in as root) fdformat /dev/fd0u1440 mkdosfs /dev/fd0 umount -a /dev/fd0 (the last step is needed if you're formatting more than one floppy in a row) If you are, do Menu -> What to do? | Administer your system | Format a floppy :) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE82s0CCv59vFiSU4YRAtITAKCWlxhS4KzigiEQ3KCCU65JS/lpfwCgoTya uS6hRmQ92DQcDbBhvohE2IA= =zHk8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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