Hello,
Am 03:07 2002-12-03 -0500 hat sean finney geschrieben:
>first of all, if you're dealing with a failing media, the first thing
>to do is get the data off the disk! do
>
>dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy.img
and if your second sector is broken you get only 512 Bytes...
I have tried this bevore...
also sprach CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.03.0323 +0100]:
> also, formatting a partition should be the same as formatting a floppy.
on UNIX, you don't format. you make filesystems, the process of which
is independent of the medium (hdd, floppy, file)...
--
.''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL
heya,
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 06:07:46PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi list, i've been reading tons of docs on mkfs and mtools because i need
> to make a copy of a somewhat corrupt ms floppy which is vfat but can't
> find the command to do so. so, how does one format a floppy to have a vfat
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 21:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi list, i've been reading tons of docs on mkfs and mtools because i need
> to make a copy of a somewhat corrupt ms floppy which is vfat but can't
> find the command to do so. so, how does one format a floppy to have a vfat
> partition and not
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 06:07:46PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi list, i've been reading tons of docs on mkfs and mtools because i need
> to make a copy of a somewhat corrupt ms floppy which is vfat but can't
> find the command to do so. so, how does one format a floppy to have a vfat
> part
hi list, i've been reading tons of docs on mkfs and mtools because i need
to make a copy of a somewhat corrupt ms floppy which is vfat but can't
find the command to do so. so, how does one format a floppy to have a vfat
partition and not just an msdos fat or fat32 partition? i re-rolled my
kernel
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