On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 11:33:01 -0700 Leroy Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am using mandrake 10.1 and need to prepare a floppy for lilo. I found > instructions and they say to use fdformat /dev/fd0H1440, however this I'm using mepis, but I don't think there is a difference in usage. I also haven't used floppies in quite some time. If memory serves, you need to use the longer form of the device when formatting, because it addresses a specific type of format -- capacity, density, sectors per track, and so forth. However, you'd address it by the short name when performing operations such as mounting, making filesystems, and so forth. Here on mepis, the only floppy devices are like "/dev/fdu1440' -- i.e., 'u' has replaced 'H' or 'h' (there's a difference in the upper case vs. loweercase - I think it has to do with disk size; hence, fd0H1440 would format a 5.25" at 1,440K, and /dev/fd0h1440 would format a 3.5" at 1,440K. The missing 'h'/'H' being substituted with 'u' wuold mean a more unified (I suppose) floppy driver where the size is not that important anymore. But on the other hand, most anyone who uses floppies these days uses 3.5" ones that can hold 1,440K. If they use them at all, that is :). (cd's are cheaper now). Seems that it's also a kernel thing (2.6.8 being run here, and that could have changed how the floppy devices are described. so in summary: fdformat /dev/fd0h1440 # formats, use the full device name only here $ mke2fs /dev/fd0 # short form when making filesystems # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy # ditto when referring to the device (and not formatting) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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