Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?
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 partitioned, although for the sake of doing it you could under Linux. Just use mtools as the others have suggested, or simply mkfs.msdos /dev/fdX. Regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 pgpz4JRHMKbid.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?
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. -- Wade Brown On 8/29/05, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Using fdisk to check the partition table of a FAT floppy gave me this output: === # fdisk /dev/fd0 Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/fd0: 0 MB, 737280 bytes 2 heads, 9 sectors/track, 80 cylinders Units = cylinders of 18 * 512 = 9216 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/fd0p1 ? 103864578 194646963 817041466 44 Unknown Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(10, 0, 13) logical=(103864577, 1, 6) Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(363, 105, 51) logical=(194646962, 1, 7) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/fd0p2 ?6179775091741548 269494180+ 65 Novell Netware 386 Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(370, 108, 53) logical=(61797749, 1, 7) Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(0, 13, 10) logical=(91741547, 1, 3) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/fd0p3 ?62565495625665949895+ 42 SFS Partition 3 has dirderfferent physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(329, 79, 13) logical=(62565494, 0, 8) Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(335, 77, 4) logical=(62566593, 1, 7) Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. Partition table entries are not in disk order === What's the appropriate way to format a floppy with FAT using Linux, so that it can be used in M$Windoze without the need of a native re-formatting? -- Regards, Mick Lycos email has now 300 Megabytes of free storage... Get it now at mail.lycos.co.uk -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?
Easiest way would be to try mformat a: (yes, that is the actual command), I'm not sure if it's part of the basic utilities set or not, but it's about as simple as you can get regarding FAT floppies. emerge mtools -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?
On Monday 29 August 2005 16:51, Michael Kintzios wrote: What's the appropriate way to format a floppy with FAT using Linux, so that it can be used in M$Windoze without the need of a native re-formatting? # mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0 -- Cheers, Alex. pgphQj8fBbRIL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?
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 could create one, but i guess _that_ would definately lead to a floppy not working with Windows... There's usually no partition table on a floppy disc. The whole device is used for one filesystem instead (superdisc?). This is actually a little bit different with USB disks: Both variants are common there (w/ and w/o partition table). -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?
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: 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 could create one, but i guess _that_ would definately lead to a floppy not working with Windows... There's usually no partition table on a floppy disc. The whole device is used for one filesystem instead (superdisc?). This is actually a little bit different with USB disks: Both variants are common there (w/ and w/o partition table). Hans, I thought that there was a Cylinders/Heads/Sectors entry at the beginning of a FAT formatted floppy (and that a Linux created floppy partition will additionally require zeroing the first 512B using dd for M$Windoze OS to recognise it?) -- Regards, Mick Lycos email has now 300 Megabytes of free storage... Get it now at mail.lycos.co.uk
