Re: formatting mod

2001-01-02 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > Well, thank you, this did work. Why doesn´t mke2fs need this? > > to encourage you to use a real filesystem instead of that horrible > msdos thing? Hmm, :-) > in general i run superformat --superverify (does double verification > in addition to

Re: formatting mod

2001-01-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 11:23:46AM +0100, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Well, thank you, this did work. Why doesn´t mke2fs need this? to encourage you to use a real filesystem instead of that horrible msdos thing? > Which one is better for formatting floppies in DOS format, mkdosfs or > superfo

Re: formatting mod

2001-01-02 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > > I guess, there must be something missing. Perhaps DOS formatted > > superfloppies need an extra treatment in addition? > > yes, read the mkdosfs man page and you find this gem: Well, thank you, this did work. Why doesn´t mke2fs need this? >

Re: formatting mod

2000-12-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 11:31:52AM +0100, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > I tried mkfs.vfat and it says the same: > > alphons:/home/khe# mkfs.vfat /dev/sdc > mkfs.vfat 2.5 (07 Jan 2000) > mkfs.vfat: Will not try to make filesystem on '/dev/sdc' not surprising: [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ ls -l /sbin/

Re: formatting mod

2000-12-30 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Jon Pennington wrote: > > I tried it now the same way with mkdosfs and it refuses to do so. What > > is the trick? With partitions on the MOD, the drive designations of the > > OS/2 system, with which the data have to be exchanged, will be messed > > up. > > I'm just sh

Re: formatting mod

2000-12-29 Thread Jon Pennington
Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > this question might sound quite stupid, but: How to format an MOD of > 640MB as superfloppy with dos filesystem? > > Until now I only needed ext2fs. I used fdisk (fdisk -b2048 /dev/sdc), > deleted the partition, wrote the new data to the disk and could > lat

formatting mod

2000-12-29 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, this question might sound quite stupid, but: How to format an MOD of 640MB as superfloppy with dos filesystem? Until now I only needed ext2fs. I used fdisk (fdisk -b2048 /dev/sdc), deleted the partition, wrote the new data to the disk and could lateron install an ext2fs with "ext2fs -b2048