floppy disk formatting: how to?

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Wed Sep 23 21:32:33 UTC 2009


Hiisi writes:

> 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

You're missing some device node.

Run 'MAKEDEV fd0'

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