On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, DaZZa wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Antony Stace wrote:
>
> > Can someone please tell me how to format a disk in MSDOS format with a
> > USB floppy drive.  I am running Kondara MNU/Linux 2000 which has Kernel
> > 2.2.17-10k.
> > My computer recoginses the USB floppy as /dev/sda.  I cannot use the
> >
> > fdformat
> >
> > command since it only works on the devices /dev/fdXX.
>
> mkfs.msdos /dev/sda?
>
> DaZZa

Or why not make a fdXX type entry that's a symlink to /dev/sda, just as
/dev/cdrom is a symlink?

Martin


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