On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 07:02:05 -0500 Seneca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 09:57:16AM +0000, john gennard wrote: | > Formatting a floppy with 'fdformat' and the using 'dd' appears to | > put something on the floppy, but then trying to mount it on Woody | > keeps giving the 'wrong filesystem etc etc' error message. I've | > tried using 'cp' and even toyed with 'install' but nothing works. | > I've looked at 'setfdprm' and played with that to no avail. | > | > How can I achieve what I'm trying to do? I don't want to install | > 'mtools' on Smoothwall (in fact I doubt I could do that!). | | fdformat does a low-level format of your floppy. You still need to add a | filesystem. You might want to try superformat from the fdutils package | (which adds a FAT file system by default) instead of fdformat. Use cp to | copy the files. | fdformat /dev/fd0u1680 (as exemple) adds a Fat file system ?? Right ?? mess-mate
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