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lugoteehalt

10-10-2003 09:43 AM

how to format floppy?

How does one format a floppy a la msdos 'format'? Mystery to me.

Thanks any help.

Hans Zarkoff

10-10-2003 09:46 AM

mkdosfs /dev/fd0

frieza

10-10-2003 09:48 AM

or mkfs -t msdos /dev/fd0
either way will work

Demonbane

10-10-2003 09:49 AM

"/sbin/mkdosfs /dev/fd0" to format a floppy disk in FAT
"/sbin/mke2fs /dev/fd0" to format it in ext2

lugoteehalt

10-10-2003 10:34 AM

Huge thanks.

However computer makes a completely different noise and doesn't take the same time.

Probably being idiotic.

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