This seems like it should be so simple, but it just won't work.
Using 'Gnome Floppy' and 'Floppy Formater' completely hangs my system, so I've been trying to format a linux floppy so I can save some files.
I've tried "mke2fs /dev/fd0" AND "fdformat /dev/fd0" both of which
appear to have worked, i.e. no error messages.
I can "umount /mnt/floppy" then "mount /mnt/floppy" without a problem.
Yet when I try to copy anything to the floppy, using "cp testfile.txt /mnt/floppy", I get the error message:
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/floppy/testfile.txt': Input/Output error
What does 'cannot stat' mean?
What am I doing wrong?
try, mkfs -t vfat /dev/fd0 if you want fat32,
or, mkfs /dev/fd0 if you want ext2 as it's default.
John
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