Sorry, I missed the original post. I think you are looking for mformat, available in the mtools package. This may only work on floppies (not sure). I personally prefer superformat which is on the rescue image, but not part of the base installation (and no where else that I know of, so I stole it :-).
Good luck, Brandon On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Mike Lucius wrote: > >Just loaded Linux for the 1st time. I would like to know how to create > >an msdos file system. I think I need other files installed on my system > >but have not been able to figure out what or how. > > You can't _create_ an MSDOS file system in Linux, but you can mount an > existing one. You should only create a partition using the operating > system to which it belongs. > > The syntax for the command, which must be executed by the superuser (root) is: > > mount -t msdos device mount_point [snip] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .