Nigel Henry wrote: > I can use dd to put data on a new formatted floppy, but how do I reuse an old > floppy. I tried it on linux using dd, but got input/output errors, and even > tried it on that other OS, but that couln't complete the format. I even tried > reformatting an XP boot floppy on XP, and it couldn't complete the format. > > I'm a bit lost at the moment. I'd buy some new ones, but my supplier hasn't > any available. > > I know floppies are legacy, but I have an old machine with my smoothwall > firewall on it, and it can't boot from cdrom, so I need to remake the 2 > floppies that start off the install. > > Nigel. > You can format then with fdformat, but it sounds like you ether have some bad floppies, or a dirty drive. So fdformat will probably also fail. You may also need to run setfdprm if the system is trying to use the wrong format. There is also a GUI tool to format floppies, but I don't remember the name... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
