Making a dos floppy

John Summerfied debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Tue May 17 23:26:03 UTC 2005


akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 05:52:58AM -0400, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
> 
>>How do I make a dos floppy in Fedora? I've looked around and all I can
>>find is "mkfs.msdos" which is referenced on some web sites and I have
>>the command in /sbin/ however, it won't run, says command not found. 
>>
>>-- 
> 
> These teo commands run sequensially (in a script) are the best way to
> format a dos disk:
> fdformat /dev/fd0H1440
> mformat -t 80 -h 2 -s 18 a:/

I've used fdformat lots of times. I've never used mformat.

It's just about possible that I've always had floppy images that I 
wanted to copy to a floppy and only ever used fdformat to clean and test 
floppies to find one that works.


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Cheers
John

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