Re: /dev/fd0u1743 help

2001-07-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Alvin Oga wrote on Fri Jul 27, 2001 um 03:17:47PM: > superformat will format 1.44mb floppies to 1.77 or higher if needed Yes, you can get 1920kB with superformat. Unfortunately, this format is very slow (since complicated to read) and cannot boot. 1743 is the common denominator, useable

Re: /dev/fd0u1743 help

2001-07-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya superformat will format 1.44mb floppies to 1.77 or higher if needed tomsrtbt disks also has the ability to format more space into the floppy you can also modify the default mke2fs options to allow more data ( not as much overhead .. sometimes the extra 100 bytes is all you needed) c ya

Re: /dev/fd0u1743 help --> SOLVED

2001-07-27 Thread Mike Pfleger
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 04:39:30PM -0500, Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Mike Pfleger wrote: > > try mknod /dev/df0u1743 b 2 76 > > brw-rw1 root floppy 2, 76 May 31 22:12 fd0u1743 > > that's what it is on my machine :) > >

Re: /dev/fd0u1743 help

2001-07-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Mike Pfleger wrote on Fri Jul 27, 2001 um 02:19:39PM: > I tried > mknod /dev/fd0u1743 b 2 77 apt-get --reinstall install fdutils or call /usr/sbin/MAKEFLOPPIES manually. > to install such, but this is apparently wrong, and resulted in not being > able to mount the device at all, let a

Re: /dev/fd0u1743 help

2001-07-27 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Mike Pfleger wrote: MP> Hello. MP> MP> I have a firewall based on fireplug, and am looking at migrating to coyote MP> linux. I would like to extract my config files from fireplug, so that I MP> may catalog my IRQ settings, etc. in my system logbook. To my dismay, I MP> do n

/dev/fd0u1743 help

2001-07-27 Thread Mike Pfleger
Hello. I have a firewall based on fireplug, and am looking at migrating to coyote linux. I would like to extract my config files from fireplug, so that I may catalog my IRQ settings, etc. in my system logbook. To my dismay, I do not have a /dev/fd0u1743 entry, and my attempts to make such have n