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 ? 61797750 91741548 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 ? 62565495 62566594 9895+ 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
