Hey Kev,
Give this a shot. Insert the disk into the drive. Assuming that your
floppy is /dev/fd0 (most are), do this:
%mkfs.ext2 /dev/fd0
viloa, all done. You should see info about the superblocks being written.
Now you can mount it to the dir ( I use /mnt/floppy) of your choice.
So, if I didn't have it before I would do this as root.
%mkdir /mnt/floppy
%chmod 700 /mnt/floppy
%mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
%cd /mnt/floppy
Then when I'm ready to eject the disk I move out of the floppy dir. You
can't unmount a medium if you in it's directory.
% umount /mnt/floppy
HTH,
Harry
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, kev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a floppy disk which is DOS formatted.
> How do I format it as a Linux disk?
>
> Sorry for the dumb question, but I searched in RH manuals and the RedHat
> site, but no joy...
>
> thanks,
>
> - Kev
>
>
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