Subject: Floppy Drive Problem. Date: Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 09:23:24AM -0500
In reply to:Person, Roderick Quoting Person, Roderick([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hey guys, > > The first question of the day for me has to due with Debian and Floppy > drives. When I first installed debian, I had no problems with floppy drives, > and in the quest for the perfect Deb Box something when wrong, I guess. > > It seems that I can format ext2 fs on floppy. At first I thougth my FD was > just dying, so I replaced it. Now when I make a ext2 disk it won't mount and > info to it is not copied to it. Now, I can read DOS, ext2 floppys that I > already have but once I write to them, I can no longer read them. I have > tried changing fstab fd0 entry from auto to ext2 to msdos, but it all the > same. Anyone have a clue on this one. > > Roderick P. Person > ? > 454-2616 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] As I see no one has answered I'll give it a shot. To use a floppy it first has to be formated. superformat /dev/fd0 hd. That low level formats the disk. Then you have to put a file system on the disk So mkfs -t ext2 /dev/fd0 will do that. To copy to the floppy it must first be mounted, so mount /dev/fd0 -t ext2 /mnt. Then a cp xyx /mnt will copy file xyz to the disk. You could put a line in /etc/fstab to speed up the process. I will leave that for you to research. See man page mkfs for other options to mkfs. Are these the steps you used? -- The day-to-day travails of the IBM programmer are so amusing to most of us who are fortunate enough never to have been one -- like watching Charlie Chaplin trying to cook a shoe. _______________________________________________________ Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>