Re: fdisk/mkfs problem

2000-06-03 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Jun 02 2000, john smith wrote: > nope..it still does'nt work. any other ideas? Install dosfsutils. It contains the tool mkdosfs so that you can format your partition. It also provides mkfs.vfat and mkfs.msdos. Hope this helps, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

RE: fdisk/mkfs problem

2000-06-02 Thread Andrew Weiss
Title: RE: fdisk/mkfs problem This command also works mkfs -t msdos -F 32 /dev/xdxx were the first x is scsi (s) or ide (h) and the second is the device order ... 1st ide master, then slave, then 2nd ide master... then slave (a,b,c,d)... or scsi ID order, and then the partition number

Re: fdisk/mkfs problem

2000-06-02 Thread john smith
nope..it still does'nt work. any other ideas? From: Bolan Meek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: john smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: fdisk/mkfs problem Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 14:22:38 -0500 MIME-Vers

Re: fdisk/mkfs problem

2000-06-02 Thread Bolan Meek
john smith wrote: > > ... mkfs -t FAT32 or mkfs -t Win95 FAT32 Try '-t vfat'.

fdisk/mkfs problem

2000-06-02 Thread john smith
Hi, I have created a dos partition via linux's fdisk (FAT32) now I try to write it I get ioctl() error..telling me that the resource or device is busy and tells me to reboot and check that the partition is updated. I did that and it shows in the partition table but now when I try to format it u