On Thursday 15 April 2004 03:42, Ian MacGregor wrote: <snip> > Yes, but the floppy formatter doesn't work while the floppy drive > is mounted. How do I format floppies? Besides booting with a > LiveCD (Knoppix) and using their format floppy tool. </snip>
You cannot format anything mounted. Mounted means that a filesystem is active. If you want to format a floppy, umount it first. To do so, in a terminal (as root) type : umount /mnt/floppy. Then, you can format it to whatever filesystem you want. If I remember correctly there is an option in KDE : System --> Configuration --> Hardware --> Floppy Formatter. Or some such. Linux is about discovery. Eventually, if you are totally lost, type : "man fdformat". HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 *
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