floppy disk formatting: how to?

Hiisi very-cool at rambler.ru
Wed Sep 23 20:07:50 UTC 2009


2009/9/23 Mikkel <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>:
> man floppy
> or
> pinfo floppy
>
> You can create the /etc/floppy file by running, as root this
> command: floppy --createrc > /etc/floppy

Done that.

>
> You should then be able to run something like:
> floppy --format A:

Whenever I'm trying the command above I have:
floppy --ext2 --format A:
floppy 0.16 Copyright 2001-2006, Double Precision, Inc.

/dev/fd0H1440: Tiedostoa tai hakemistoa ei ole
No formattable capacities for /dev/fd0


The penult line means 'The file or directory not found'.
What's wrong with it?

>
> Mikkel
> --
>
>  Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
> for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
>

Thanks everybody for attention!

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