On Friday 23 November 2001 15:19, you wrote:
> Gidday folks (sorry coundn't find the original posters name)
> I can't help wondering if the fault lies with the floppy drive being used
> rather than the system formatting incorrectly
> rgrds
> max
I thought the same at first. So I kicked ol' M$win
> Things do not seem to work the same from computer to computer in
> linux. I have formatted 5 floppies in a row with no failures and my
> fstab looks like this:
>
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
> user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
>
> No comma but a space after auto.
On Thursday 22 November 2001 08:11 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
> I haven't tried fiddling with the etc/fstab entry yet, wanting to
> know if this was happening to others as well. Apparently it does!
>
> My guess is that setting fs to fat instead of auto might help, but
> I'm not sure as that will for
On Thursday 22 November 2001 12:06, you wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 November 2001 05:12 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
> > Since mdk8.1 I'm burning floppies like hell. It's not the drive
> > itself, I tested that, so it's got to be Mandrake.
> > I know Linux is more demanding on floppy quality, but 2 good
>
On Wednesday 21 November 2001 05:12 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
> Since mdk8.1 I'm burning floppies like hell. It's not the drive
> itself, I tested that, so it's got to be Mandrake.
> I know Linux is more demanding on floppy quality, but 2 good
> floppies out of 10 is overdoing it :(
> Anybody else
floppies. floppies formatted in linux is generally unrecognizable by
Windows* just like the emergency bootdisk made during installation. or
so I am said. ;-)
It depends on what you mean by 'fomatting'. Floppies in Windows are
formatted, but the filesystem is FAT, and it's laid down as part of
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> On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 23:12:04 +0100, "H.J.Bathoorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>Hello all,
>
>Since mdk8.1 I'm burning floppies like hell. It's not the drive itself,
> I tested that, so it's got to be Mandrake.
>I know Linux is more demanding on floppy quality, but 2 good floppi
Hello all,
Since mdk8.1 I'm burning floppies like hell. It's not the drive itself, I
tested that, so it's got to be Mandrake.
I know Linux is more demanding on floppy quality, but 2 good floppies out of
10 is overdoing it :(
Anybody else have similar troubles?
Harm
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