Re: problem creating boot floppy

2000-04-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 10:04:41AM -0700, John Kiff wrote: > I tried superformat, but it bombed out with the following messages: > > sh: mformat: command not found > warning: mformat error > > Am I missing a package? Yep. Install mtools. -- Nathan Norman "Eschew Obfuscation"

Re: problem creating boot floppy

2000-04-14 Thread John Kiff
I tried superformat, but it bombed out with the following messages: sh: mformat: command not found warning: mformat error Am I missing a package? John Kiff --- Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John Kiff wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure that I'm doing everythi

Re: problem creating boot floppy

2000-04-14 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John Kiff wrote: > I'm pretty sure that I'm doing everything correctly, but I keep getting > back a bad disk or write-protected disk error. Make sure that you don't have any floppy with bad sectors. You can format the floppies on a running Linux machine using fdformat (fdfo