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December 19th, 2001, 01:56 PM
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fdformat giving error...
I'm brand spankin' new to Linux and have just installed Mandrake 8.1. Right now I am playing around trying to figure out the basics. I want to format a floppy so I did the following:
fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 I get "No such file or directory" If I do: fdformat /dev/fd0 The disk formats but I cant run mke2fs b/c I get a "bad blocks count" error... Any ideas? Thanks in advance
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December 21st, 2001, 06:31 AM
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What about
fdformat -H -v -t dos /dev/fd0 ? Or do you really need ext2fs on a 1.44?
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December 21st, 2001, 10:44 AM
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fdformat doesn't accept any params except -n.
I was able to get the format and file system copy to work by doing the following: setfdrpm /dev/fd0 2880 18 2 80 0 0x1b 0x00 0xcf 0x6c fdformat /dev/fd0 mke2fs dos /dev/fd0 --this only worked as root?!? There's got to be an easier way to do it than the above, right? Is there something I can set somewhere so that the setfdprm step can be avoided? Can I make /dev/fd0 just default to the value I set in the setfdprm command when I mount the device?
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