Thank you, this is most helpful :) On Wednesday 14 April 2004 6:59 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > 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.
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