To use msdos, try "mkdosfs /dev/fd0".
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Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MicroComputer Specialist University of Tulsa
Engineering and Natural Sciences
"Pardon me, stewardess. I speak Jive."
On Thu, 14 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >How can I format a floppy disk in DOS format ?
>
> fdformat /dev/fd0H1440
> mkfs -t ext2 -c /dev/fd0H1440
> ^^^^
> change this for MS-DOS, see what your mkfs man page says
>
> ... and then you'll be able to mount it.
>
> This information appears in the DOS/Win to Linux HOWTO.
>
> DL
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