floppy disk formatting: how to?

[Aldo Foot]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
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>>
>> 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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How was he able to get the "Formattable capacities for /dev/fd0:" he showed
in a previous email?

~af