On Wednesday 11 April 2007 20:16, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 19:29 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Tuesday 10 April 2007 23:06, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > > Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > For an MS-DOS floppy, > > > > > > > > #fdformat /dev/fd0H1440;mformat a: > > > > > > I don't think that udev creates anything but the /dev/fd0 for the > > > first floppy with the default settings... > > > > > > Mikkel > > > > Ok. Udev doesn't come into my equation, as I'm doing this on FC2. > > > > I've now got a floppy formatted with a low level format using the > > following. > > > > [root@localhost djmons]# fdformat -n /dev/fd0H1440 > > Double-sided, 80 tracks, 18 sec/track. Total capacity 1440 kB. > > Formatting ... done > > > > So far so good, but I'm darned if I can get a filesystem on it using > > mformat, and have tried allsorts of incantations. It would be nice if > > some of these manpages had a simple example. > > "mformat a:" should do it. mtools use DOS- or Windows-like device > naming conventions, and "a:" is the floppy. All I get when trying that is as below. [root@localhost djmons]# mformat a: plain_io: Input/output error mformat: Error reading from '/dev/fd0', wrong parameters? I will have a read of the mtools manpage though. Thanks for the reply Rick. Nigel.
