[newbie] Format floppy

Hello all i want to make a small script for formating a floppy disk. Does anybody knows how the bash command is? Kostas Dimitriou http://gasdim.topcities.com (greek) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Format floppy

On Friday 13 June 2003 11:17, kostas wrote: Hello all i want to make a small script for formating a floppy disk. Does anybody knows how the bash command is? Kostas Dimitriou http://gasdim.topcities.com (greek) [EMAIL PROTECTED] frans]$ apropos floppy fdformat (8) - Low-level

[newbie] Format Floppy

Hey everyone, how do you format a floppy in Linux? :-[ Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Format Floppy

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 09 May 2002 8:00 pm, Brian Koppe wrote: Hey everyone, how do you format a floppy in Linux? :-[ - From the command line, it's not trivial. If you're not using Gnome or KDE, it's a two-stage process (wipe everything then make a new

Re: [newbie] Format Floppy

Brian Koppe wrote: Hey everyone, how do you format a floppy in Linux? :-[ Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com fdformat /dev/fd0u1440 After that you

Re: [newbie] Format Floppy

On Thursday 09 May 2002 12:00 pm, you wrote: Hey everyone, how do you format a floppy in Linux? :-[ Thanks Brian From KDE, its a two step process: open a terminal and do 'su' so you can 'umount /mnt/floppy' Go to Configuration-Hardware-Floppy Formatter When I'm done, I go back to my

Re: [newbie] Format Floppy

The straight answer is KmenuConfigurationhardwareFloppy formatter The other answer is 'Aren't the floppys you buy already DOS formatted?' Linux can read/write to DOS floppys no problem. derek On Thursday 09 May 2002 8:00 pm, you wrote: Hey everyone, how do you format a floppy in Linux? :-[