Hi Michael,
on Monday, 2005-08-29 at 16:51:54, you wrote:
Using fdisk to check the partition table of a FAT floppy gave me this output:
[gibberish]
That's because fdisk tries to interpret the data it finds as a partition
table, but actually there is none. Floppies aren't supposed to be
Easiest way would be to try mformat a: (yes, that is the actual
command), I'm not sure if it's part of the basic utilities set or not,
but it's about as simple as you can get regarding FAT floppies.
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Wade Brown
On 8/29/05, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
Using fdisk to
Easiest way would be to try mformat a: (yes, that is the actual
command), I'm not sure if it's part of the basic utilities set or not,
but it's about as simple as you can get regarding FAT floppies.
emerge mtools
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gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
On Monday 29 August 2005 16:51, Michael Kintzios wrote:
What's the appropriate way to format a floppy with FAT using Linux, so that
it can be used in M$Windoze without the need of a native re-formatting?
# mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0
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Cheers, Alex.
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Hi,
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:51:54 + (GMT)
Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Using fdisk to check the partition table of a FAT floppy gave me this
output:
[...]
Just a side note here (mtools and mkfs.vfat would solve the actual
task): partition table of a floppy disk? well, you
Thank you all,
From:: Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:32:24 +0200
Hi,
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:51:54 + (GMT)
Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
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