Re: which format label
Jeffrey Ebert wrote:
> Harold Hartley wrote:
> >
> > I sent a message ealier and felt I didn't explain myself enough...
> >
> > I have fdformat some floppies and put the files for boot floppies on them..
> > they also have a SunOS label to them....
> > As I read my man on my sparc 1+ about fdformat, I find it telling me about
> > fdformat -d for a MS-dos label...
> >
> > should I have my floppies with a MS-dos label for my bootfloppy to install
> > linux on a unix OS thats on there now...
> >
> > Harold
>
> I don't think it matters since you are going to use rawrite or dd to put
> the boot floppy images onto the floppy. I think the only reason for
> formatting them before hand is to look for bad sectors. If you have any
> bad sectors, then you can't use the disk. There is no way to mark the
> bad sectors and avoid them when you are dd'ing a complete disk image.
You can also check the low-level format, or whatever it's called, by
formating the floppy. If you've been playing with superformat you might
have some floppies lying around that have more than the standard number
of sectors, which might cause problems for a different drive, or might
not.
Does Sun use the word "label" to mean both "partition table" and
"directory structure"?
Edmund
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